It was, after that period, let, not to large but to small proprietors.

They defended the right of the small proprietor to hire laborers and to control the sale of his crops without interference from the local committees.

Exemptions from capital taxes were also extended, which benefitted 330,000 small proprietors.

The Compendium was written in order to bring the theory of Capital to students, educated workmen and small proprietors.

The next three farmers on the list were all small proprietors, owning strips in the open fields.

In a nation of small proprietors, basically all interest looked like business interest.

Nor does the report take any account of the fact that, in Finland for example, most woodland belongs to small private proprietors.

His mother's side, the Lowthers, were farmers or small proprietors in Annandale.

After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are, in every country, the principal improvers.

It established a regular subordination, accompanied with a long train of services and duties, from the king down to the smallest proprietor.