Agistment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: agistmentAgistment
Agistment [fr. jacere,:at.; gesir, Fr., to lie, whence giste, a lodging], the taking in of other men's cattle into pasture-land, at a certain rate per week, without letting them the land for their exclusive use as tenants; so called because the cattle are suffered agiser, i.e., to be levant et couchant there. Also the profit of such feeding. As to the extent to which the 'agister' is liable for negligence in the keeping of the cattle, see Halestrap v. Gregory, (1895) 1 QB 561. A restriction upon the power of distraining agisted cattle (in some parts of the country called 'tacks') for rent is imposed by s. 35 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923. See also Manwood's Forest Laws, cc. 11-80, where to 'agist' is to take in and feed strangers' cattle in the Royal Forest and to collect the money due for it. Agistment does not include a right of lien, Chapman v. Allen, 1631 Cro Car 271.Agistment of sea banks [terr' agitat', Lat.] is where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea....
Agisted livestock
Agisted livestock, means livestock belonging to another person which has been taken in by the tenant of an agricultural holding to be fit at a fair price, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), 4th Edn., Para 334, Note 4, p. 174; see also London and Yorkshire Bank v. Belton, (1885) 15 QBD 457....
Agistment
Agistment, is derived from the French word gyser, to lie, because the beasts are there Levant and Couchant, 4 Co. Inst. 293....
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
Pasturer
One who pastures one who takes cattle to graze See Agister...
Egistment
Egistment. See AGISTMENT....
Gisement
Gisement, cattle taken in to graze at a certain price; also the money received for grazing cattle. See AGISTMENT...
Grazing
Grazing. The right of grazing on the sides of the highway belongs to the adjoining owners usque ad medium filum vi'. See also AGISTMENT. As to power to attach grazing rights to small holdings and allotments, see s. 42 of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 36), as amended by 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 59...
Guest-taker
Guest-taker, an agister; one who took cattle into feed in the royal forests....
Milk for meat
Milk for meat, i.e., that the agister of cows should take their milk in exchange for their pasturage. See London and Yorkshire Bank v. Belton, (1885) 15 QBD 457, where it was held that under such an agreement the farmer is taking a 'fair price' for the grass within s. 45 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883 (s. 35 of the Act of 1883), by which live stock taken in to be fed 'at a fair price' are exempted from distress for rent....
- << Prev.
- Next >>
Sign-up to get more results
Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.
Start Free Trial