Degree of care; duty to restore the property.

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A person having the right of habitation is bound to use the property as a prudent administrator and at the expiration of his right to deliver it to the owner in the condition in which he received it, ordinary wear and tear excepted.

Acts 1976, No. 103, §1.

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