L Dictionary
Land waiter
Land waiter, means a customhouse officer with the responsibility of examining, tasting, weighing, measuring and accounting for merchandise landing at any port. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....
Land-agende, land-hlaford, or land-rica
Land-agende, land-hlaford, or land-rica, a proprietor of land; lord of the soil, Anc. Inst. Eng....
Land-boc
Land-boc [Sax.] (libellus de tera, Lat.), the deed or charter by which lands were held, Spelm....
Land-cheap
Land-cheap, a fine paid in some places on the alienation of lands....
Land-gabel
Land-gabel, a tax or rent issuing out of land. Spelman says it was originally a penny for every house. This land-gabel, or land-gavel, in the Register of Domesday, was a quit-rent for the site of a house, or the land whereon it stood; the same as what we now call ground-rent....
Land-man
Land-man [fr. terricola, Lat.], a terre-tenant....
Land-poor
Land-poor, means owning a substantial amount of unprofitable or encumbered land, but lacking the money to improve or maintain the land or to pay the charges due on it, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 883....
Land-reeve
Land-reeve, a person whose business 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, drift-ways, and water-courses; and likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment 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.Means a person charged with (1) overseeing certain parts of a farm or estate (2) attending to the timber, fences, gates, buildings, private roads, and water-courses, (3) stocking the commons, (4) watering for encroachments of all kinds, (5) preventing and detecting waste and spoliation by tenants and others, and (6) reporting on findings to the manger or land steward, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 884....
Land-steward
Land-steward, a person who overlooks or has the management of a farm or estate...
Land-tax
Land-tax, means a tax laid upon land and houses, which in 1689 (1 Will. & Mary, c. 3) superseded all the former methods of taxing either property or persons in respect of their property, whether by tenth or fifteenths, subsidies on land, hydages, scutages, or talliages. Although generally a charge upon a landlord, yet it is a tax neither on landlord nor tenant, but on the beneficial proprietor, as distinguished from the mere tenant at rack-rent; and if a tenant have to any extent a beneficial interest, he becomes liable to the tax pro tanto, and can only charge the residue on his landlord. Houses and buildings appropriated to public purposes are not liable to land-tax. As to its origin and inequality, see 3 Hall. Cons. Hist. 135; Miller on the Land-tax; Bourdin on Land-tax.The more agricultural counties, upon which the burden of the tax has fallen most heavily by reason of the depreciation in value of agricultural land, were greatly relieved by s. 31 of the (English) Finance Act, 1896,...