Metayage

As Natural lease if described, if the rent for agricultural land was not paid as a monetary amount, but in the form of previously on the surface or operation generated goods. This type of payment is no longer in use in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Molding

Of particular importance was the Natural lease with strong monetary and price fluctuations, if kind are secure means of payment, and small landlords, the required kind for self catering. In this case, the tenant paid a predetermined amount of his crop yield and therefore has no market risk.

More common was the Teilbau in which the crop yield between owner and tenant was divided. The split ratio was determined by performance, soil quality and irrigation and also by supply and demand for space. The lease period was usually only one year at oral contracts, often with the tacit extension, which meant planning security for the lessee. Accessible Teilbauverhältnisse would have meant a division of capital and risk. The one-sided shift in power at the lease market due to the high demand due to the increase in population has made the degenerate Teilbau and led to the debt, dependency and impoverishment of many farmers.

In the United States there was a similar lease with sharecropping system.