metayer

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

Jamet Métayer paid twenty crowns for four sheets in Italics; he demanded three months for the work.

The workshop of Jamet Métayer, of Tours, cost a rent of eighty-three crowns—about twenty pounds of current money.

Would he—on the métayer system—consent to give half of his harvest to the landowner?

The land was already cultivated on the métayer system, half the crop going to the tenant—a state of things advantageous all round.