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Definition of House agent

1. Noun. A person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land. "In England they call a real estate agent a land agent"

Lexicographical Neighbors of House Agent

Literary usage of House agent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"A person exercising the calling of a house agent in England is required, under a penalty ... In this connexion a person is deemed to be a house agent if he ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"A person exercising the calling of a house agent in England is required, under a penalty ... In this connexion a person is deemed to be a house agent if he ..."

3. Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant by William Woodfall (1890)
"House-agent. — A house-agent letting a house for his employer seems to be ... In a case where the house-agent introduced a tenant, and charged 5 per cent, ..."

4. A Treatise Upon the Law of Principal and Agent in Contract and Tort by William Evans (1888)
"Estate and house agent.]—An estate agent who is requested to find a purchaser ... house agent's must be licensed (n); land agents not required to be so (o). ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith (1862)
"The plaintiff employed the defendant as house agent to let a house for her on commission. In an action for introducing an insolvent tenant : held, ..."

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