Land-Reeve
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A person whose business it is to overlook certain parts of a farm or estate; to attend not only to the wouds and hedge-timber, but also to the state of the fances, gates, buildings, private roads, driftways, and water-courses; 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 land steward. Mne. Lond.