A farmer; a tenant.
A farmer; a tenant.
In the civil law. One who Inhabits or occupies land near a place, as one who dwells by a river, or on the bank of a river. Dig. 43, 13, 3, 6. In feudal law. A husbandman; an agri-cnitural tenant; a tenant of a manor. Spelman. A name given to a class of villeins in Italy. Barr. St 302.