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Agistment

Agistment \A*gist"ment\, n. [OF. agistement. See Agist.] (Law)

  1. Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

  2. The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
    --Mozley & W.

  3. The price paid for such feeding.

  4. A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

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agistment

n. 1 The take in by any one of other people's livestock to graze at a certain rate. 2 A charge or rate against lands, such as an agistment of sea banks (i.e. charge for banks or dikes). 3 Formerly, the taking and feeding of other people's cattle in the king's forests; the price paid for such a feeding.

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Agistment

Agistment originally referred specifically to the proceeds of pasturage in the king's forests. To agist is, in English law, to take cattle to graze, in exchange for payment.

Usage examples of "agistment".

I entirely agree with you, that the abolition of agistment tithe in Ireland by a vote of the Irish House of Commons, and without any remuneration to the Church, was a most scandalous and Jacobinical measure.

But the most valued is that of agistment or pasturage, especially of ponies.

I entirely agree with you, that the abolition of agistment tithe in Ireland by a vote of the Irish House of Commons, and without any remuneration to the Church, was a most scandalous and Jacobinical measure.

Comhria had found stables for them, ample feed from automatic machines, but none of this truly replaced the grassy agistment the beasts had earned.