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Levant Et Couchant

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

L. Fr. Ris ing up and lying down. A term applied to trespassing cattle which have remained long enough upon land to have lain down to rest and risen up to feed; generally the space of a night and a day, or, at least, one night.