Does a farmer have a right to the partnership, the land, or the trees after the contract has expired and the partner has been absent for many years, given that the farmer has planted fruit-bearing trees on it?
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The contract period agreed upon between the landowner and the worker (three years) has expired, and the landowner has refused to renew the contract. Therefore, the worker must hand over the land. The landowner then has the choice: either to order the worker to demolish what he built and uproot what he planted, or to pay him the value of the building and plantings as dismantled. The worker has no right to claim the land or compel its owner to renew the contract, based on the statement of Al-Dardir, integrated with the words of Khalil: "And if the period for building and planting expires, then it is as if he were a usurper."
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