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Land agent

noun

A person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land. Synonyms: estate agent, house agent, real estate agent, real estate broker.

A person who administers a landed estate.

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"Land agent" Quotes from Famous Books

... silently under injustice did not hesitate to make known their discontent. The disturber of the public tranquillity continued to speak and write, and he made his presence felt more and more from month to month. Having resolved to engage in business as a land agent, and to set on foot a huge scheme of immigration to Canada from Great Britain, he went diligently to work to gather specific and definite information, and to attack one abuse after another. He travelled about the country hither and thither, ...

— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent

... end of the year I migrated from Kerry to become an assistant land agent in Cork, and thus really embarked on the profession of my life—one which, on the whole, I have most thoroughly ...

— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... why despise them more than the gentlemen of fortune and standing who employ them as their agents? Why more than the professors of religion who barter their fellow-professors to them for gold and silver? We do not despise the land agent, or the physician, or the merchant, and why? Simply because their professions are virtuous and honorable; and if the trade of men-jobbers was honorable, you would not despise them either. There is no difference ...

— An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South • Angelina Emily Grimke

... all exertion, yet could not comfortably put up with the only alternative—extortion. Having no knowledge of his cousin Nick (except that he was indefatigable), and knowing his own son to be lazier even than himself had been, longing also to inflict even posthumous justice upon the land agent, with the glad consent of his heir he left this distant, fretful, and naked spur of land to his beloved ...

— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore

... our brethren have made no counterfeit money; and if any miller has received $1500 base coin in a week from us, let him testify. If any land agent of the general government has received wagon loads of base coin from us in payment for lands, let him say so. Or if he has received any at all, let him tell it. These witnesses against us ...

— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn