Amodiation

Machine-translated from the French article

An amodiation is a legal act by which a public authority or a private individual assigns to a third party (a private company or a local authority) a plot of land (or a mooring point) for a limited period and, in principle, in a reversible manner. Historically, an amodiation or indirect tenure is the concession of land in exchange for periodic payments made to the grantor, originally in kind and later in money. The term amodiation is opposed to direct farming, and designates any mode of agricultural exploitation in which the enterprise is conducted by someone other than the owner (tenant farming, sharecropping).