Medical Definition of Metayer
1. One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord. Origin: F, fr. LL. Medietarius, fr. L. Medius middle, half. See Mid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metayer
Literary usage of Metayer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1904)
"We will begin with the former case ; of which the metayer culture is the principal
... The principle of the metayer system is that the labourer, or peasant, ..."
2. Manual of Political Economy by Henry Fawcett (1876)
"A metayer originally occupied the land on the condition that the landowner should
receive one half the produce as his rent. The name is still preserved, ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery: Being a Compilation of All the by Jacob D. Wheeler (1837)
"She has failed in a former suit, where she was plaintiff in damages for false
imprisonment, (metayer v. Noret, 5 Martin's Rep. 566,) to prove her freedom by ..."
4. Peasant Rents: Being the First Half of an Essay on the Distribution of by Richard Jones (1895)
"Summary of metayer Rents. UPON comparing the metayer with the serf, it is obvious
that he has many advantages : his being entrusted with ..."
5. Conversations with Distinguished Persons During the Second Empire, from 1860 by Nassau William Senior (1880)
"We talked of the metayer system. Vogue.—I defend it in such a country as this
... Under the metayer system you have a tenant whose interest is yours, who, ..."
6. Conversations on Political Economy: In which the Elements of that Science by Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake (1828)
"... opulent tenantry,—metayer system of farming.— Small landed properties.—Extract
from Arthur Young's travels.—Dairy establishments in Switzer- , land. ..."
7. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1909)
"We will begin with the former case ; of which the metayer culture is the principal,
and in Europe almost the sole, example. ..."
8. The Laws of Wages, Profits, and Rent, Investigated by George Tucker (1837)
"metayer rents. Where rent, profits and capital are received by the same individual.
Cultivation by free and slave labour compared. ..."
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