metayers

To these succeeded a kind of farmers known at present in France by the name of "metayers," whose produce was divided equally between the proprietor and the farmer, after setting aside what was judged necessary for keeping up the stock, which still belonged to the landlord.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910

There have been slaves first everywhere, then metayers; and we have the half-crop system, rent, and day laborers.

Anna Karenina 2003

It turned all metayers, renters, conditional tenants, all those ` who in one way or another worked the land, into land owners.

CLOSING OF FARMERS CONGRESS 1987

The vast majority had to pay rent or were metayers, tenant farmers who handed over a percentage of their production, or were conditional tenants.

CLOSING OF FARMERS CONGRESS 1987

The remainder, or some one hundred and seventy-five thousand, consist chiefly of small proprietors, owning three, four, five and ten acre patches of land, often intersected by other properties, and therefore not adapted for the cultivation of grain: such of the _emphyteutas_ and metayers as are practically free to cultivate what they please make up the remainder of this class.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

There have been slaves first everywhere, then metayers; and we have the half-crop system, rent, and day-labourers.

Chapter XXXII. Part III 1917

And thus the land-owners, despite their marvellous efforts, are really a transient class, continually being depleted by those who fall back into the class of renters or metayers, and augmented by newcomers from the masses.

The Souls of Black Folk 1915

"Wherever the country is poor," cried Arthur Young, "it is in the hands of metayers," and "their condition is more wretched than that of day-laborers."

The Souls of Black Folk 1915

The men who conduct such farms do not long remain renters; either they sink to metayers, or with a successful series of harvests rise to be land-owners.

The Souls of Black Folk 1915

About eighteen per cent of the population belong to this class of semi-metayers, while twenty-two per cent are laborers paid by the month or year, and are either "furnished" by their own savings or perhaps more usually by some merchant who takes his chances of payment.

The Souls of Black Folk 1915