The tenant had to keep the farm-buildings in order, and to build any that were required.

House-property seems to have been even more valuable than farm-land.

The deeds for the lease or sale of it enter into the most minute particulars, and carefully define the limits of the estate.

The house was let for a term of years, the rent being paid either twice or three times a year.

At the expiration of the lease, the property had to be returned in the state in which the tenant had found it, and any infringement of the legal stipulations was punished with a heavy fine.