Metayage

Contract for metayage, papyrus, 35th year of Amasis II (533 BC, 26th Dynasty)

The metayage[a] system is the cultivation of land for a proprietor by one who receives a proportion of the produce, as a kind of sharecropping. Another class of land tenancy in France is named fermage [fr], whereby the rent is paid annually in banknotes. A farm operating under métayage was known as a métairie, the origin of some place names in areas where the system was used, such as Metairie, Louisiana.

  1. ^ "Metayage". Collins English Dictionary. HarperCollins. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  2. ^ "métayage". Oxford Dictionaries UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press.[dead link]
  3. ^ "métayage". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.


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