Glossary of Archaic Public Offices, Agrarian Customs and Feudal Contracts

• Leasehold administration — An economic system, historical legal institution, or the complex profession and activity of managing leased agricultural estates; the office or central administration of a large-scale tenant farmer where accounting ledgers and peasant labor records were kept. In an institutional-structural sense, arendatoria represented the mechanism through which large boyar or monastic estates of the 18th and 19th centuries were commercially exploited via financial intermediaries.