metayer
Example Sentences
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The metayer will find it convenient to be slack in paying rent.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
This gives the GAR as roughly = fifteen U. The metayer system Land was let under a variety of systems of tenure.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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 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
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
