Agistare
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
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.
See Agist.