Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

RYOT-TENURE

RUTA

1055

ships. 8 Kent, Comm. 231; Story, Bailm. § 608a. RUTA. In the civil law. Things ex tracted from land; as sand, chalk, coal, and such other matters. RUTA BT OESA. In the civil law. Things dug, (as sand and lime,) and things cut, (as wood, coal, etc.) Dig. 19, 1, 17, 6. Words used in conveyancing. RYOT. In India. A peasant, subject, or tenant of house or land. Wharton.

RYOT-TENURE. A system of land tenure, where the government takes the place of land-owners and collects the rent by means of tax gatherers. The farming is done by poor peasants, (ryots,) who find the capital, so far as there is any, and also do the work. The system exists in Turkey, Egypt, Persia, and other Eastern countries, and in a modified form in British India. After slavery, it is accounted the worst of all sys tems, because the government can fix the rent at what it pleases, and it is difficult to distinguish between rent and taxes.

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