Lexicographical Neighbors of Metayers
Literary usage of Metayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Political Economy by Henry Fawcett (1888)
"A VERY considerable portion of the land of Europe is cultivated by metayers, and
nearly the whole of the soil of Ireland before the famine in 1848 was ..."
2. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1904)
"OF metayers. | 1. FROM tne case in which the produce of land and labour belongs
... Near Aguillon, on the Garonne, the metayers furnish half the cattle. ..."
3. Peasant Rents: Being the First Half of an Essay on the Distribution of by Richard Jones (1895)
"On metayers among the Romans. THE causes which introduced metayers into Italy
were precisely similar to those which ultimately established them in Greece. ..."
4. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1909)
"... CHAPTER VIII OF metayers § 1. FROM the case in which the produce of land and
labour belongs undividedly to the labourer, we proceed to the cases in ..."
5. An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary by Mountstuart Elphinstone (1839)
"... who are the same as the metayers in France; 4th, hired labourers ; and 5th,
villains, who cultivate their lord's lands without wages. ..."
6. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter, Herbert Hope Risley, Hermann Michael Kisch (1875)
"... much in size in different villages, as to render it impossible to give their
English equivalents. DAY-LABOURERS AND metayers.—A tendency appears towards ..."
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