Note 93 — XVI. POPULATION.

“Although we might describe fermage, in a general way, as the letting or leasing of land, in whatever form it is done, we must distinguish two forms of letting, equally common in various parts of Europe, and very different in their effects. In the one form, the land is let for a fixed rent, payable in money annually. In the other, it is let under the condition of the produce being divided between the proprietor and the cultivator. It is to the first of these two modes of leasing land that we give more particularly the name of fermage. The other is generally designated in France as métayage.” (Dictionnaire de l’Économie Politique, tome i. p. 759.)—Translator.