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 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
All the land in the duchy was farmed on the metayer system, and with such ill results that the peasants were always in debt to their landlords.
From The Valley of Decision by Wharton, Edith
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)
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)
