Land-Reeve
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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 to the state of the fences, gates, buildings, private roads, driftways, 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 land steward. Enc. Lond.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
One whose business it is to overlook parts of an estate. Moz. & W.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
In English law. A person whose business it is to overlook certain parts of an estate.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
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.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
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.