Most peasants in Western Europe managed to change the work they had previously owed to their landlords into cash rents.

Given the Irish climate, this method was probably more realistic than expecting a fixed cash rent.

In Nicholas I's reign the latter brought three times the income of cash rent though this needed less administration.

Beginning in the early modern period, champart was converted into a cash rent, first in the Île-de-France region.

From the late 1920s, it obtained cash rents from African tenants on crowded and unsupervised estates.

Until around 1930, it marketed its tenants' crops, but after this sought cash rents.

After 1928 maximum cash rents were fixed at £1 for a plot of 8 acres, although some estates charged less.

The military and the government of Pakistan imposed a cash rent on the farm land, which the peasants tried to resist.

Following the uprising, the protectorate government tried to replace thangata by cash rents.

They liked cash rents and short leases.