Farm : (noun)
1: workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land
as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm"
(verb)
1: be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in
California"
2: collect fees or profits
3: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means
of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces
great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We
grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise,
produce]
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Farm : \Farm\, n. [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr.
L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See
Firm, a. & n.]
1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of
part of its products. [Obs.]
2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a
leasehold. [Obs.]
It is great willfulness in landlords to make any
longer farms to their tenants. --Spenser.
3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the
purpose of cultivation.
4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under
the management of a tenant or the owner.
Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent,
continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from
the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so
from the legal sense. --Burrill.
5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the
collection of the revenues of government.
The province was devided into twelve farms. --Burke.
6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods;
as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of
10,000 marks per annum. --State Trials
(1196).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Farm : \Farm\, v. i.
To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a
farmer.
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Farm : \Farm\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Farming.]
1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to
yield the use of to proceeds.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak.
2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the
revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a
percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.
To farm their subjects and their duties toward
these. --Burke.
3. To take at a certain rent or rate.
4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to
till, as a farm.
To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.
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FARM, estates. A portion or tract of land, some of which is cultivated. 2
Binn. 238. In parlance, and for the purpose of description in a deed, aFarm :
means: a messuage with out-buildings, gardens, orchard, yard, and land
usually occupied with the same for agricultural purposes; Plowd. 195 Touch.
93; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 208, 209, n. N; but in the English law, and
particularly in a description in a declaration in ejectment, it denotes a
leasehold interest for years in any real property, and means anything which
is held by a person who stands in the relation of tenant to a landlord. 6 T.
R. 532; 2 Chit. Pl. 879, n. e.
2. By the conveyance of a farm, will pass a messuage, arable land,
meadow, pasture, wood, &c., belonging to or used with it. 1 Inst. 5, a;
Touch. 93; 4 Cruise, 321; Bro. Grants, 155; Plowd. 167.
3. In a will, the word farm may pass a freehold, if it appear that such
was the intention of the testator. 6 T. R. 345; 9 East, 448. See 6 East,
604, n; 8 East, 339.
To FARM LET. These words in a lease have the effect of creating a lease for
years. Co. Litt. 45 b; 2 Mod. 250.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Farm :
processor farm
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Farm : (Matt. 22:5). Every Hebrew had a certain portion of land
assigned to him as a possession (Num. 26:33-56). In Egypt the
lands all belonged to the king, and the husbandmen were obliged
to give him a fifth part of the produce; so in Palestine Jehovah
was the sole possessor of the soil, and the people held it by
direct tenure from him. By the enactment of Moses, the Hebrews
paid a tithe of the produce to Jehovah, which was assigned to
the priesthood. Military service when required was also to be
rendered by every Hebrew at his own expense. The occuptaion of a
husbandman was held in high honour (1 Sam. 11:5-7; 1 Kings
19:19; 2 Chr. 26:10). (See LAND LAWS ¯(n/a); TITHE.)
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