metayer
Example Sentences
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But they were mostly on the metayer system, and could claim seed, implements, stock, and other necessary supplies from their master.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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
The metayer will find it convenient to be slack in paying rent.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
All the land in the duchy was farmed on the metayer system, and with such ill results that the peasants were always in debt to their landlords.
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
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
