Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle

commissioned to make) to the owner of the things until he is paid
for his work. If the thing ordered perishes, so that the artisan
cannot deliver it, then the artisan cannot receive any payment. If it
has been stipulated that he will do the work in person, he cannot
employ someone else. In services that do not involve
workmanship, the person hired, such as a porter or a boatman or
a driver, cannot retain the thing rendered to his care on the
grounds that he has not received a payment. If that thing perishes,
he will (nonetheless) get his wage.
Supposing a house or a shop is being rented out; if it is not
stated what kind of work will be being carried on in it, any work
that will not give harm to the building may be carried on.
Moreover, the tenant may rent the house or the shop out to a third
person before taking possession of it. He could not rent it to a third
person if it were portable property. Once property has been rented
out, a third person’s using it will be extortion. (In that case) the
tenant will not (have to) pay the rent.
A person who makes a child work for him without its walî’s
permission will (have to) pay the child for the work.
Property rented out is a trust once it is delivered to the tenant;
he will not have to compensate for it if it perishes without any
intentional abuse on his part. Using something in an inoperable
manner is in effect a kind of abuse. As a piece of arable land is
being rented out the kind of the seed to be sown should be
specified, or it should be stated that anything may be sown at will.
Arable land may as well be rented out on the understanding that
it will be used for building houses or planting trees. When the
period agreed on expires, these things should be removed, or the
owner of the land should buy them. Clovers are categorized as
trees. If the rental period expires before the crop has grown, the
period will be extended until the time when it grows. An animal is
hired either for the purpose of riding or as a pack animal, and
clothes are hired for the purpose of wearing them. If a house
rented or an animal or clothes hired are damaged because the
renter has disregarded the conditions agreed on, he will have to
compensate. If the conditions stipulated do not cover damages,
then the renter will not have to observe them. For instance, if it has
been stipulated that two people will live in a house rented, then
three or five people may live in it. When an animal or a truck is
being rented, the condition stipulated should concern not the kind
of the pack but the weight of it. However, something harmful
cannot be loaded. If he, (i.e. the person who hires the animal,)
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