Tenants are complaining that vital repairs are not being done.
They formed a tenants association.
He was cruel to his tenants.
Tenants had to give part of their harvest to the landowners.
The substantial and middling tenants at this time would have held on long leases, typically of 11 or 19 years.
The difference in wealth between landlord and tenant might be so large as to allow the former to impose whatever contract he wants.
The landlord once suggested that a relative of his would be prepared to swap property with the tenants.
The number of tenants with 1 acre remains static (perhaps through data problems).