metayer

Example Sentences

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The metayer will find it convenient to be slack in paying rent.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

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)

This metayer system of leasing land probably accounts for loans without interest.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

But they were mostly on the metayer system, and could claim seed, implements, stock, and other necessary supplies from their master.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

By dint of uncompromising economy, the metayer may ultimately become a small owner.

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