Legal Definition and Related Resources of Agriculture

The art of cultivating land, of farming, of the production of plants and animals. See Oak Woods cemetery association v Murphv, 50 N.E.2d 582, 383 III. 301.

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Agriculture in Historical Law

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What does Agriculture mean in American Law?

The definition of Agriculture in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

Like farming, a word with which it is now essentially synonymous, “agriculture” is used both commonly and in most statutes broadly to include not only the sowing and reaping of crops, but anything else productive a city person might imagine going on out there “in the country,” e.g., animal husbandry, grazing, viniculture, apiculture, etc.

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