medietarii

Updated: May 5, 2025

Though included in the lower courses of the feudal structure, they continued in many countries to render to the landlord precisely the same dues which they had paid to the Roman dominus, and from a particular class among them, the coloni medietarii who reserved half the produce for the owner, are descended the metayer tenantry, who still conduct the cultivation of the soil in almost all the South of Europe.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine - Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society