Cap. 16 Art. 397Liabilities of grantee.

(1) Where a person having the right of use of a tenement, takes all its fruits, or, having the right of habitation, occupies the whole house, he is bound to pay the ground-rent and all other annual charges on the tenement, to defray the expenses of cultivation, and to make the ordinary repairs in the same manner as a usufructuary.

(2) Where, however, he takes only a part of the fruits, or occupies only a part of the house, he contributes thereto in proportion to what he enjoys.