A banking institution that issues notes on the security of landed property.
1696. (title) Remarks on the proceedings of the Commissioners for putting in Execution the Act past last Session for establishing a Land-Bank.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), III. 45. In Egypt, the generation or tribe, being once set apart as sacred, wou’d … be able … to establish themselves a plentiful and growing fund, or religious land-bank.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., Wks. V. 416. To establish a current circulating credit upon any Land-bank … has hitherto proved difficult.
1900. Pilot, 19 May, 351/1. A gentleman energetic in promoting the spread of landbanks (perhaps the best of several good things which Mr. Plunkett has introduced in Ireland).
