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AGISTMENT . To "agist" (from O. Fr. agister, derived from gesir—Lat. jacere—to See also:lie) is, in See also:law, to take See also:cattle to graze, for a remuneration. " Agistment," in the first instance, referred more particularly to the proceeds of pasturage in the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's forests, but now means either (a) the See also:contract for taking in and feeding horses or other cattle on pasture See also:land, for the See also:consideration of a weekly See also:payment of See also:money, or (b) the profit derived from such pasturing. Agistment is a contract of See also:bailment, and the bailer is See also:bound to take reasonable care of the animals entrusted to him; he is responsible for See also:damages and injury which result from See also:ordinary casualties, if it be proved that such might have been prevented by the exercise of See also:great care. There is no See also:lien on the cattle for the See also:price of the agistment, unless by See also:express agreement. Under the Agricultural Holdings See also:Act 1883, agisted cattle cannot be distrained on for See also:rent if there be other sufficient See also:distress to be found, and if such other distress be not found, and the cattle be distrained, the owner may redeem them on paying the price of their agistment. The tithe of agistment or " tithe of cattle and other produce of grass lands," was formally abolished by the act of See also:union in 1707, on a See also:motion submitted with a view to defeat that measure.
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