Tenant farmer facts for kids
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Tenant farmer on his front porch, south of Muskogee, Oklahoma (1939)
A tenant farmer is a person (farmer or farmworker) who resides on land owned by a landlord.
Depending on the contract, tenants can make payments to the owner either of a fixed portion of the product, in cash or in a combination. The rights the tenant has over the land, the form, and measures of payment vary across systems (geographically and chronologically). In some systems, the tenant could be evicted at whim (tenancy at will); in others, the landowner and tenant sign a contract for a fixed number of years (tenancy for years or indenture).
In most developed countries today, at least some restrictions are placed on the rights of landlords to evict tenants under normal circumstances.
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