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agistment|əˈdʒɪstmənt|
[a. OFr. agistement, f. agiste: see agist and -ment.]
1. The action or process of agisting; the taking in of cattle or live stock to feed at a rate of so much per head; the opening of a forest for a specified time to live stock.
[1304Year books of Edw. I, 23 Q'il ad agistement a deus cents bestis.] 1611Cotgr., Glandage..th' Agistment, or laying of swine into Mastie woods. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. ix. 219 To take pannage which was one farthing for the agistment of each hog. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. 452 If a man takes in a horse, or other cattle, to graze and depasture in his grounds, which the law calls agistment. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 82 Depending upon casual and agistment stock for the consumption of his herbage. 1885Sheffield Tel. 30 June (Advt.), Agistment. Good pasture for cattle and horses. 1955Times 16 July 11/5 A number of cattle had to be sent away on agistment.
2. The herbage of a forest, or the right to it.
1598[See under 3]. 1611Cotgr., Paisson, th' Agistment, or Herbage of woods, or forests; feeding for cattell therein. 1641Termes de la Ley 15 The feed or herbage of the cattell is called Agistment.
3. The rate levied or profit made upon the pasturing of another's cattle.
1577Holinshed Chron. an. 1198 (R.) Aduantages and profits..as in pannage and agistements. 1598J. Manwood Lawes of Forest ix. §1 Agistment is most properly, the common of Herbage, of any kind of ground..or the money that is received or due for the same. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Agistment is likewise the profit of such feeding in a ground or field; and extends to the depasturing of barren cattle of the owner, for which tithes shall be paid to the parson.
4. agistment tithe: ‘The tithe of cattle or other produce of grass lands{ddd}paid to the vicar or rector by the occupier of the land, and not by the person who may put his cattle there to graze at a certain rate per head.’ Encycl. Brit.
1527quoted in Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 280 The rector..shall have all the tithes of hay and agistments in the mead called Shetewel in Bradepole. 1779in Ann. Reg. 221/2 A claim made by the former [the rector] of agistment tithe in kind. 1808Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 174/2 The abolition of agistment tithe in Ireland by a vote of the Irish House of Commons.
5. By extension, Any rate or charge levied upon the owner or occupier of (pasture) lands.
1618Pulton Coll. Stat. tr. Act 6 Hen. VI, v, So that no tenants of lands or tenements..shal in any wise be spared in this and for agistments vpon the sea banks for preseruation of the said parts. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v., There is agistment of sea-banks, where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea. |