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Definition of Occupiers
1. occupier [n] - See also: occupier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occupiers
Literary usage of Occupiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... county franchise extended to leaseholders and tenant occupiers; Chandos clause;
borough franchise extended to all £10 occupiers; introduction of ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1857)
"After making this discovery, I extended my observations to a number of smaller
rooms and garrets, and found, without exception, that the occupiers of the ..."
3. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"I have first stated the evidence of the occupiers in the different townships, in
support of ... In that case several occupiers of lands in that township, ..."
4. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"Peculiar rights of occupiers.—In several of the public services the obligation
is limited to the supplying of the occupiers of premises. ..."
5. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings (1872)
"The highway rate, in England, is paid by occupiers, managed by boards, ...
Owners generally pay nil for construction ; they share repairs with occupiers, ..."
6. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1831)
"The question is, whether the occupiers of certain pasture lands and are about
eighty resident burgesses who have rights of commons, ..."
7. English Farming Past & Present by Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1917)
"... or by throwing tenancies together ; the strict letter of the law ; small
occupiers become landless labourers ; depopulation of villages when tillage was ..."
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