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Middleman

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

An agent between two parties, an intermediary who performs the ofice cf a broker or factor between seller and buyer, producer and consumer, land-owner and tenant, ete. A middleman, in Ireland, is a person who takes land in large tracts from the proprietors, and then rents it out to the peasantryin sinall portions at a greatly enhanced price, Wharton.