metayer

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This gives the GAR as roughly = fifteen U. The metayer system Land was let under a variety of systems of tenure.

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

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

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)

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

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)