=XIX. Where a Contract is not Complied With, according to its Terms.=
Whenever any person obtains possession of land, vineyards, or any other
real estate, under a lease for the tenth part of its annual yield,
or for any other payment, or consideration, whether said lease is
in writing, or verbal, provided he who leases it does so under some
contract for rent, the lessee shall, without demand or solicitation
from the lessor, pay his rent regularly; nor shall the right of the
landlord to said rent be affected, in any way, should he not do so. For
wherever the provisions or covenants of a lease are not fulfilled, the
right of the owner shall not be affected; because the controversy has
not arisen through the act of the landlord, but through the fraud of
the tenant. If the tenant should refuse to fulfil his contract, or to
comply with any of its provisions, he shall pay double the amount to
the landlord which he agreed to pay him under the terms of the lease.
And if the tenant, alleging various pretexts, should not comply with
his contract for such a time that the rights of the owner are lost by
the limitation of the law, that is, for fifty years, he shall forfeit
said property, with all the increase in value of the same resulting
from his labors thereon.
TITLE II. CONCERNING THE LIMITATIONS OF FIFTY
AND THIRTY YEARS.
=I.= _After the Lapse of Fifty Years, Neither Goths nor Romans
can Assert a Claim to Property._
=II.= _No Fugitive Slave shall Again be Reduced to Servitude,
after the Lapse of Fifty Years._
=III.= _No Suit at Law shall be Brought Thirty Years After the
Cause of Action has Arisen._
=IV.= _The Limitation of Thirty Years shall Run in all Cases
Excepting those where Slaves of the Crown are Concerned._
=V.= _Concerning Claims made within Thirty Years._
=VI.= _The Limitation of Thirty Years shall not Run while
Persons are Exiled._
=VII.= _Within what Time Slaves Belonging to the Crown can
Again be Reduced to Slavery._
=I. After the Lapse of Fifty Years, Neither Goths nor Romans can Assert
a Claim to Property.=
Lands apportioned between Goths and Romans, which have not been claimed
within fifty years, can under no circumstances be claimed afterwards.
=II. No Fugitive Slave shall Again be Reduced to Servitude, after the
Lapse of Fifty Years.=
Fugitive slaves who have not been found within fifty years, shall not,
after that time, be returned to servitude.
=III. No Suit at Law shall be Brought Thirty Years After the Cause of
Action has Arisen.=
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