land agents

Noun

land agent (plural land agents)

1. (UK) A professional employed to manage an estate; steward or estate manager.
   • 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...1904, S. M. Hussey, The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent, →ISBN
2. (historical) A person employed to manage the legal and practical aspects of developing a land grant.
   • 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.1932, A.M. Sakolski, The great American land bubble, →ISBN, page 81
3. A real estate broker, especially one who specializes in the buying and selling of farms or undeveloped land.
   • The importance of appearing in this Directory is so evident to every land agent and attorney that we will discuss the matter no further.1886, Copp's Land Owner - Volume 13, page 180
4. A government official responsible for managing public lands.
   • 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...1840, Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, Volume 356, pages 106–107
5. (US) An employee of an oil or mining company who negotiates with landowners for rights to extract oil or minerals from their property.
   • 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.1950, John J. Sweeney, Connecticut Law Journal - Volume 17, page 250