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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.

&fist; 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).

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