Levant Et Couchant - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Levant et couchant [levantes et cubantes, Lat.], cattle that have been so long in the ground o another that they have lain down and risen to feed; supposed to be a day and a night, Termes de la Ley....
Agistment
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....
Resident
Resident, an agent, minister, of officer residing in any distant place with the dignity of an ambassador; the chief representative of the government at certain native states in India. residents are a class of public ministers inferior to ambassadors and envoys; but, like them, they are under the protection of the law of nations.Also, a tenant, who was obliged to reside on his lord's land, and not to depart from the same; called also homme levant et couchant, and in Normandy, resseant du fief, Leg. H. I.A person who has a residence in a particular place, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1311....
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