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
One and all, moreover, are promoting themselves, rising by a slow evolutionary process from the condition of wage-earner to that of metayer, tenant, lastly freeholder.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
The metayer will find it convenient to be slack in paying rent.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
This arrangement probably answers two purposes, economy is effected, and fraud prevented on the part of the metayer.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
This metayer system of leasing land probably accounts for loans without interest.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
