A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. The word “farmer” iscolloquially used as synonymous with “husbandman,” but originally meant a tenant whocultivates leased ground.
A corporation owned by family interest that has illiquid capital markets, inactive corporate control, and nascent regulations. Also called a relationship or market model.
In old English law. Hide; skin. A measure of land, containing, according tosome, a hundred acres, which quantity is also assigned to it iu the Dialoyus deSvaccurio. It seems, however, that the hide varied in different parts of the kingdom.
Agriculture; cultivation of the soil for food; farming, in the sense ofoperating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 lleisk. (Tenn.) 510; McCue v.Tunstead, 05 Cal. 500, 4 Pac. 510.
In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of thehousehold. Spelman.A king’s vassal, thane, or baron; an earl’s man or vassal. A term of frequent occurrencein Domesday Book.