metayer
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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
The metayer will find it convenient to be slack in paying rent.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
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
The metayer system was in vogue, especially on temple lands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
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