Land-Reeve
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The designation, upon English estates, of a person whose business it is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the woods and hedge-timber, but also as to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, drift-ways, and watercourses, and, likewise, to the stocking of commons, and encroachments of every kind, as well as to prevent or detect waste and spoil in general, whether by the tenants or others, and to report the same to the manager or landsteward.