metayer

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The metayer system was in vogue, especially on temple lands.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

This arrangement probably answers two purposes, economy is effected, and fraud prevented on the part of the metayer.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

The average metayer pays from twenty to thirty per cent of his crop in rent.

From The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

The principal landowners, who reside in fortified houses, are all Moslems; their estates are cultivated on the metayer system.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

One and all, moreover, are promoting themselves, rising by a slow evolutionary process from the condition of wage-earner to that of metayer, tenant, lastly freeholder.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda