metayer

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All the land in the duchy was farmed on the metayer system, and with such ill results that the peasants were always in debt to their landlords.

From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith

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

But in many cases the natives had an interest in the crops on something like a metayer system.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various

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