Ruskin’s system is known as the metayer system, only that half, not one-tenth of, the profits usually go to the landlord.
All the land in the duchy was farmed on the metayer system, and with such ill results that the peasants were always in debt to their landlords.
In the Peloponnesus peasant proprietorship is almost universal; elsewhere it is gradually supplanting the metayer system; the small properties vary from 2 or 3 to 50 acres.
This metayer system of leasing land probably accounts for loans without interest.
But they were mostly on the metayer system, and could claim seed, implements, stock, and other necessary supplies from their master.
The metayer system was one of the most common and persistent.
But the consideration, which is a legal presumption, may have lain in the fact that the borrowers were tenants on the metayer system and had a right to borrow of their landlord, free of interest, at seed-time and harvest.
They have no cash, and the Metayer system gives rise to the suspicion of some fraud, for the negroes are very distrustful of the honesty of their former masters.
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.
The metayersystem was in vogue, especially on temple lands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metayer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
