Cottier Tenure - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition cottier-tenure

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Cottier tenure, one where a labourer makes his contract for land without the intervenion of a capitalist farmer, and where the conditions of the contract, especially the amountof rent, are determined not by custom but by competition. Also a class of sub-tenants who rent a cottage and an acre or two of land from small farmers, Irish. 1 Mill's Pol. Eco. 383.