Metayer System
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A system of agricultural holdings, under which the land is divided, in small farms, among single families, the landlord generally supplying the stock which the agricultural system of the country is considered to require, and receiving, in lien of rent and profit, a fixed proportion of the produce. This proportion, which ig generally paid in kind, is usually one-half. 1 Mill, Pol. Econ. 296, 363; and 2 Smith, Wealth Nat. 8, c. ti, The system prevails in some parts of France and Italy.