peasant proprietor

a peasant who owns land, especially the land he or she tills.

Origin of peasant proprietor

First recorded in 1785–95

peasant proprietorship, noun

The peasant-proprietor has always been a factor in the life and history of France.

Rambles in Normandy |Francis Miltoun
This narrows down the peasant-proprietor theory vastly in its practical application; it remains hardly a national question.

Speculations from Political Economy |C. B. Clarke
Make him a peasant-proprietor at home, and the chances are the old Adam in him will be too strong.

Pictures of Canadian Life |J. Ewing Ritchie
The cottager or peasant-proprietor has, I believe, an advantage in poultry of all kinds.

Speculations from Political Economy |C. B. Clarke

Continental success in agriculture depends on co-operation, and that in turn is associated with the peasant-proprietor system.

British Socialism |J. Ellis Barker