Cropper
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
One who, having no interest in the land, works it in consideration of receiving 2 portion of the crop for his labor.
2 Rawle, 11.
The difference between a tenant and a cropper is: A tenant has an estate in the land for the term, and, consequently, he has a right of property in thecrops. Until division, the right of property and of possession in the whole isthe tenant’s. A cropper has no estate in the land; and, although he has in some sense the possession of the crop, it is the possession of a servant ouly, and is, in law, that of the landlord, who must divide off to the cropper his share.
71 N.C. 7.