metayer
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By dint of uncompromising economy, the metayer may ultimately become a small owner.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
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
The metayer, or metairie, system is fairly common, and has much to recommend it when honourably carried out by both parties, but it is open to very serious abuse.
From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by William Bevan
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
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