land-tiller

Then we see the gathering together of the band of henchmen, the sudden march away from the peaceful land, growing torpid through two or three years of warlessness, the surprise of the Sclavonic king, the copious effusion of blood which was the preferred alternative to the sweat of the land-tiller, the return to the young chief's own land with spoils sufficient to support perhaps for many months the "generosity" expected by the henchmen.

Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

The feudal caste system of Nepal is the example that the nation had a long wait for Maoist led government to scrape out "Haliya" or a land-tiller system from practice even though it was officially abolished in 2001.

American Chronicle 2008