In re Drake’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““Nor will it profit to trace historically the meaning of the word ‘farming.’ In its purely agricultural sense, Its use is comparatively modern. Within the purview of this statute it is'understood to mean the business of cultivating land, or employing it for the purposes of husbandry; and a farm is a tract devoted to cultivation under a single control, whether it be large or small, isolated, or made up of many parcels. For a long time after the words began to be used in an agricultural sense they were applied to lands held on lease, and ‘demise, lease, and to farm let’ are still the operative words of a lease, but they are, in modem use, applied without respect to nature of tenure. Robinson Crusoe says, T farmed upon my own land.’ So it appears that the words have been used in their present sense for nearly 200 years. Under the proofs in this case the defendant had the direction and control of the farming operations upon all the land described, and was ‘engaged in farming,’ and I am of opinion that these, words cannot be given tbe restricted meaning which would take out of the. protection of the statute only those engaged in actual labor upon the farm.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Johnson