Agistare

1 1 In old English law. to assign or apportion cattle to a a tax; to use for the purposes of cattle; to feed other animals; to

I., Agistor, /r., Agist To put, place, assign, apportion. To take in the cattle of strangers to feed in a royal forest. To take cattle to pasture at a certain rate of compensation.

Lat. [from ad, to, and Norm. gister, to lie, lay or place.] To adjust, assign, apportion, assess; to assign or apportion cattle, or other animals, to a feeding ground. Unusquisque liber homo agistet boscum suum in foresta pro voluntate sua; every freeman shall agist his wood in the forest at his pleasure. Chart. forest. c. 9. Spelman. To adjust or assess a tax, or duty. Id. To feed or pasture cattle; to feed other animals; to agist. Ducere possit porcos suos per dominicum boscum nostrum libere, — ad agistandum eos in boscis suis propriis, vel alibi; he may take his swine through our demesne wood freely, — to agist them in his own woods, or elsewhere. Chart. forest. c. 9. See Agist.