land agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land agents
Senses: examples: text: The duties of an Irish land agent comprise a great deal of office work, drawing up agreements with tenants, receiving rent, superintending agricultural and all landlords' improvements, sitting as magistrate and representing the landlord when the latter is absent at poor-law meetings, road sessions, and on grand juries.
ref: 1904, S. M. Hussey, The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent, →ISBN:
text: It was a relationship quite different from that of the late-eighteenth-century steward who was evolving into the salaried land agent so characteristic of the nineteenth century.
ref: 1992, D. R. Hainsworth, Stewards, Lords and People: The Estate Steward and His World in Later Stuart England, →ISBN, page 251:
text: However a study of the cautious development of land law will also demonstrate the evolution of the modern estate manager's role through that of steward and then land agent, particularly well summarised in F.M.L. Thompson's Chartered Surveyors - The Growth of a Profession.
ref: 2010, Douglas Scarrett, Property Asset Management, →ISBN:
text: I can truly say its prevention has been the great difficulty of my life as a land agent. The collection of rent is almost always easy on a well-managed estate ; but the prevention of subdivision is almost always difficult.
ref: 2011, W. Steuart Trench, Realities of Irish Life, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: A professional employed to manage an estate; steward or estate manager.
examples: text: He held the office as resident land agent of the Holland Land Company for twenty-one years. In this capacity he laid out the city of New Amsterdam, now Buffalo, gave its streets the jaw-breaking names of the Dutch proprietors and made it a flourishing town.
ref: 1932, A.M. Sakolski, The great American land bubble, →ISBN, page 81:
text: As land agent, he had observed the successful German settlement at Muenster, thirty-eight miles north, and the arrival of a French-Canadian group who took up homesteads in 1904 at St. Brieux, in the same area.
ref: 1997, Jeanne Ruth Merifield Beck, To Do and to Endure: The Life of Catherine Donnelly, Sister of Service, →ISBN:
text: Those grants that were taken up depended primarily upon a land agent and an overseer for their operation. The land agent was the owner's representative in America and was responsible for managing the legal and practical affairs related to obtaining and developing the grant.
ref: 1998, James J. Miller, An Environmental History of Northeast Florida, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: A person employed to manage the legal and practical aspects of developing a land grant.
examples: text: The importance of appearing in this Directory is so evident to every land agent and attorney that we will discuss the matter no further.
ref: 1886, Copp's Land Owner - Volume 13, page 180:
text: If, following such a communication from the land agent, the owner of the property intimates that he is willing to negotiate for the sale thereof, he does not thereby make the land agent in any sense his agent for sale, or for any other purpose.
ref: 1919, The Magistrates' Court Reports - Volume 14, page 96:
text: The circumstances are that the land agent brought the parties together in full discussion before the document was signed, so it must be held that the plaintiff himself accepted and fully approved H.A. Paddison as a purchaser.
ref: 1960, The New Zealand Law Reports, page 591:
text: He acted as the land agent for the Jesuits in Chillos in the 1690s, buying up small pieces of property for the expanding estate of the College of Quito.
ref: 1982, Nicholas P. Cushner, Farm and Factory: The Jesuits and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in Colonial Quito, 1600-1767, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: A real estate broker, especially one who specializes in the buying and selling of farms or undeveloped land.
examples: text: By these papers you will learn that the Hon. Rufus McIntire, while engaged in the service of this State as land agent, in endeavoring to expel from lands bordering on the Aroostook river, in this State, a body of armed men, principally from the British provinces, who were engaged in cutting the timber, in defiance of the authorities of this State, has been seized, with Gustavus G. Cushman and Thomas Bartlett, Esquires, who were aiding the land agent in this service, and have been transported to Frederickton, the capital of New Brunswick.
ref: 1840, Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, Volume 356, pages 106–107:
text: ln townships so selected, in which suitable roads have not been located, the land agent shall cause such roads to be located as the public interest and the accommodation of the future settlement require.
ref: 1883, Charles William Goddard, Report of Charles W. Goddard, Commissioner to Revise, Collate, Arrange and Consolidate the General and Public Laws of the State of Maine:
text: He found an old law providing for sale of unused public lands at the rate of $1.25 an acre and costs, and somehow convinced the federal land agent that this entitled him to buy all the fort property.
ref: 1991, Lois Wille, Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront, →ISBN:
text: That is what prompted him to write the county land agent to find what properties were available.
ref: 2012, Kenneth Jones, Two Pilgrims' Journey: The Quest for Jesus, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: A government official responsible for managing public lands.
examples: text: On January 10, 1951, a land agent of the plaintiff called at the home of the defendants and requested of Mrs. Bancroft permission to enter' upon the land to make a survey for location of a pipe line.
ref: 1950, John J. Sweeney, Connecticut Law Journal - Volume 17, page 250:
text: The casual approach to mineral leasing, where each lease was typed up on an individual basis, was no longer appropriate. Efficiency demanded a standardized form and one, moreover, that could be completed by the land agent in the field.
ref: 2008, John Bishop Ballem, The Oil and Gas Lease in Canada, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: An employee of an oil or mining company who negotiates with landowners for rights to extract oil or minerals from their property.