Page 409 - Important Provisions of The New Civil Code

Article 1680. The lessee shall have no right to a

reduction of the rent on account of the sterility

of the land leased, or by reason of the loss of

fruits due to ordinary fortuitous events; but he

shall have such right in case of the loss of more

than one-half of the fruits through

extraordinary and unforeseen fortuitous events,

save always when there is a specific stipulation

to the contrary.

Extraordinary fortuitous events are understood

to be: fire, war, pestilence, unusual flood,

locusts, earthquake, or others which are

uncommon, and which the contracting parties

could not have reasonably foreseen. (1575)