| 单词 | mezzadria system |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmezzadria system A system of feudal land tenure whereby a farmer paid a proportion (originally half) of the farm's produce as rent. Also (occasionally) attributive, in mezzadria district, mezzadria system, etc.This system ceased to operate after the Second World War. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > systems of tenure stintagea1642 stintinga1642 take1794 tenantry1794 crofting1851 mezzadria1875 métayage1877 crofterization1907 crofterizing1908 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 415/1 A system..in certain provinces of Italy..called mezzeria..the halving, that is, of the produce of the soil between landowner and landholder. 1882 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 45 18 The principal agrarian contracts in Italy are the ‘Mezzadria’, by which the parties divide by half the produce of the soil. 1909 B. King & J. Okey Italy Today (new ed.) viii. 171 In the mezzadria districts there are comparatively few agricultural labourers and therefore less pauperism. 1928 L. B. Register tr. C. Calisse Hist. Italian Law iii. xx. 727 It was preferable to fix the return as a proportion of the profits,..sometimes it was a proportion of the harvest, a half for example, as in the ‘mezzeria’. 1949 L. Olschki Genius of Italy (1950) i. 10 Mezzadria imposes hard penalties on the peasant. 1973 Daily Tel. 23 Jan. 17/3 Mrs Doxat has plans for her vineyards, which are run under the mezzadria system, whereby the Italian tenant works them and takes 52 per cent. of the profits, while all capital investment is the owner's responsibility. 1994 Guardian 5 Aug. ii. 9/4 The collapse after the second world war of the ‘mezzadria’..system. < as lemmas |
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