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A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the user (referred to as the lessee) to pay the owner (referred to as the lessor) for the use of an asset

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

agricultural subsistence pattern. He tried to enforce the semi-feudal fermage system in order to increase agricultural productivity on the island, but

of 1946 replaced the metayage system with a tenancy statute (statut de fermage) that provided greater security from eviction "and put a normal annual

payment in kind paid to the Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The right to fermage was 20 livres in 1492, and the bail de l'herbe rose to 27 livres in 1551

revive the production that declined 45% from 1789 levels and instituted a fermage system, similar to serfdom; confined to state-owned plantations. However

ferblantier ferme "farm" ( < OFr, < ML ferma, firma < OE feorm < Gmc) fermage fermette fermier fermière feudataire "feudatory" feudiste "feudist" feurre

Administration in Jebbet Bsharri in the 18th Century & Al Ahmar, N.: Ottoman Tax Fermage system in Jebbet Bsharri, First Seminar on Jebbet Bcharri History, pages

France, description des grandes régions agricoles et viticoles, prix et fermages des biens ruraux, Encyclopédie agricole, publiée par une réunion d'ingénieurs

fat pig", in Breton), governor of Brittany reduced the land revenues (fermages) and those on wine and canvas by a third, leading to general deflation