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Damage feasant or faisant

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

Black's Law Dictionary

Doing damage

A term applied to a person's cattle or beasts found upon another's land, doing damage JS7 treading down the grass, grain, etc.

3 Bl. Comm. 7, 211; Tomlins.

This phrase seems to have been introduced in the reign of Edward III., in place of the older expression "en son damage," (in damno suo.) Crabb, Eng. Law, 292.