metayer

Example Sentences

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The métayer, now placed in charge of the castle, showed me over it.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison

He substituted for a fixed rent a certain proportion of the produce,1035 in fact the métayer system, and employed some of his people to see that the returns were not fraudulently diminished.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

But the truth is that the métayer was not a free tenant in the sense which we attach to the word.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John

The practice of letting farms to a métayer, who retains a share of the produce, and pays his rent with the remainder, is resorted to and continued from necessity.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby

He never worried his métayer over money matters, or insisted upon seeing that everything was equally divided.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison