metayer

I remembered that a most efficient sliding-scale of payment was to be found in the tithe, and in the metayer system; whereby the land-worker gave a fixed proportion of his yearly harvest.

The Money Muddle 2007

Page 95 crops on something like a _metayer_ system.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

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.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

The metayer system was in vogue, especially on temple lands.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

In 1890, therefore, the South was faced by this question: Are we willing to allow the Negro to advance as a free worker, peasant farmer, metayer, and small capitalist, with only such handicaps as naturally impede the poor and ignorant, or is it necessary to erect further artificial barriers to restrain the advance of the Negroes?

The Negro 1915

The triumph of reaction in the South inaugurated a new era in which we may distinguish three phases: the renewed attempt to reduce the Negroes to serfdom, the rise of the Negro metayer, and the economic disfranchisement of the Southern working class.

The Negro 1915

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

The Souls of Black Folk 1915

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

VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece. William Edward Burghardt 1903

The legal form of service was theoretically far different; in practice, task-work or “cropping” was substituted for daily toil in gangs; and the slave gradually became a metayer, or tenant on shares, in name, but a laborer with indeterminate wages in fact.

VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece. William Edward Burghardt 1903

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

The Souls of Black Folk 1903