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# Landlord

## Definition

The owner of land who, once land becomes private property, demands a share of almost all the produce which the labourer can either raise or collect from it, making rent the first deduction from the produce of labour employed upon land.

## Source Chapter

Book I, Chapter 8

## Context

Introduced as one of the three parties in the economic relationship, alongside the labourer and master, who claims a portion of the produce through rent once land becomes private property.

## Economic Domain

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