stock-and-land

Updated: April 30, 2025

In this case he parceled it out among particular peasants, furnishing each with livestock and a plow and expecting in return a fixed proportion of the crops, which in France usually amounted to one-half. Peasants who made such a bargain were called in France metayers, and in England "stock-and-land lessees."

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.