metayer

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The average metayer pays from twenty to thirty per cent of his crop in rent.

From The Souls of Black Folk by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)

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

This metayer system of leasing land probably accounts for loans without interest.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

In the Peloponnesus peasant proprietorship is almost universal; elsewhere it is gradually supplanting the metayer system; the small properties vary from 2 or 3 to 50 acres.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

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 Wharton, Edith