Agistment
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850), Bouvier (1839)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The taking of another person's cattle into one's own ground to be fed, for a consideration to be paid by the owner. The person so taking cattle to pasture is called an "agister." Schouler, Bailm. § 96; Story, Bailm. § 443; 68 Cal. 290. In Old English Law. The taking ol the cattle of strangers to pasture on the king's land, and collecting fees therefor to the use of the king. Spelman.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The taking of another person's cattle into one's own ground to he fed. for a consideration to he paid by the owner. Williams v. Miller, 68 Cal. 290, 9 Pac. 166. Tithe of Agistment was a small tithe paid to the rector or vicar on cattle or other produce of grass lands. It was paid by the occupier of the land and not by the person who put in his cattle to graze. Rawle, Exmoor 31. In Canon Law. A composition or mean rate at which some right or due might be reckoned.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The taking in of cattle to pasture for certain compensation.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The taking in of another person's cattle to be fed, or to pasture, upon one's own land, in consideration of an agreed price to be paid by the owner. Also the profit or recompense for such pasturing of cattle. There is also agistment of sea-banks, where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea; and terrae agistatae are lands whose owners must keep up the sea-banks. Holthouse.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[L. Lat. agistamentum.] The taking in of horses, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in one's grounds at a certam rate. 2 Bl. Com. 452. See Agist. Called anciently ^t Mm^^. Cowell.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
contracts, is the taking of other person’s cattle into one’s own ground to be fed for a consideration to be paid by the owner. The person who receives the cattle is called an agister. As this is an interested bailment, the agister 1s bound to ordinary diligence, and of course responsible for losses by ordinary negligence; but he does not insure the safety of the cattle agisted. Jones, Bailm. 91; 1 Bell’s Com. 458; Holt’s N. P. Rep. 547; Story, Bailm. § 443. pinquity was connected by males only; in the relation of cognates, one or more females were interposed. By the Scotch law, agnates are.all those who are related by the father, even though females intervene; cognates are those who are related by the mother. Ersk. L. Scot. B. 1, t. 7, s. 4.