metayer
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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
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
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
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
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