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Farmer

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

The lessee of a farm. It Is said that every lessee for life or years, although it be but of a small house and land, Cunn. Law Diet; Cowell; 3 Sharsw.

Bla. Com. 318.

In common parlance, and as a term of description in a deed, farmer means one who cultivates a farm, whether he owns it or not There may also be a farmer of the revenue or of other personal property as well as lands.

Plowd. 195; Cunn. Law Diet.