metayer

Example Sentences

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

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

The metayer system was one of the most common and persistent.

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

In the Peloponnesus peasant proprietorship is almost universal; elsewhere it is gradually supplanting the metayer system; the small properties vary from 2 or 3 to 50 acres.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Interest was rarely charged on advances by the temple or wealthy landowners for pressing needs, but this may have been part of the metayer system.

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