Commoner (Peasant)

A Peasant is an agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited to none land-ownership, especially one living under feudalism and paying rent, tax, or services to a landlord.
There exist three classes of peasants; slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants can hold title to land either by fee simple or other forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.
=== Social Position ===
Peasants typically made up the majority of the agricultural labor force in society. The majority of the people in accordance to historical records estimate 45% of the population as peasants, others being divided as commoners, nobility, and royalty.
Though "peasant" is a word of loose application, once a market economy had taken root, the term peasant was frequently used by proprietors to describe the traditional rural population in countries where smallholders farmed much of the land. More generally, the word "peasant" is sometimes used to refer pejoratively to those considered to be "lower class", perhaps defined by poorer education and/or a lower income.