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Metayage
Cultivation of land for a proprietor by one who receives a proportion of the produce / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The metayage[lower-alpha 1] 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.
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