Damage Feasant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Damage feasant or faisant
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Distress
in effect abolished all material distinction between them. Distress may also be made at Common Law on cattle damage feasant, and by statute for rates and taxes, and for tithe annuities which have been substituted for tithe rent-charge … cannot be made in the night, i.e., after sunset and before sunrise (except in the case of cattle damage feasant), nor on the day of rent becoming due; but must be made within six years from its becoming
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Pound
a prison in which beasts seized for rent (see DISTRESS) or caught on the land of another (see DAMAGE FEASANT) may be kept until they are replevied or redeemed. It is either overt, i.e., open overhead; or covert, … costs, by the Sale of Distress Act, 1690, s. 4, and in the case of distress on cattle damage feasant to a penalty of not more than 5l., recoverable before justices of the peace, by the Pound-Breach Act,
Trespass to land
right or beyond the limits of a right, no damage need be proved (see also AB INITIO and DAMAGE FEASANT). Trespass by occupation of land is a continuing damage which is actionable from day to day so long
Rescue
Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1308. Rescue lies where a person distrains for rent or services, or for damage feasant, and is desirous of impounding the distress, and another person rescues the distress from him. The party distraining
Detainer
of a person's goods, although the original taking may have been lawful. As if I distrain another's cattle, damage feasant, and before they are impounded he tenders me sufficient amends; now, though the original taking was lawful, my
Fowls domestic
be the subject of larceny. If they stray on to the land of others they can be distrained damage feasant but not killed. If they stray on to a highway and cause injury to a cyclist, their owner
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