In law, to take the cattle of others to graze, at a certain sum; to feed or pasture the cattle of others; used originally for the feeding of cattle in the king's forest.
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To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
The taking and feeding other men's cattle in the king's forest, or on one's own land; also, the price paid for such feeding. it denotes also a burden, charge or tax. [In canon law, a modus, or composition.
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.
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.
Agistment
Encyclopedia Britannica
AGISTMENT (from the old French gésir or gir, to lie; see Edin. Rev., vol. cxxviii. p. 79), the profit arising from taking in cattle to lie and pasture in one’s lands, applied more particularly, in the first instance, to the proceeds of pasturage in the king’s forests. The tithe of agistment, or “tithe of cattle and other produce of grass lands,” was formally abolished by the Act of Union, on a motion submitted with a view to defeat that measure. (See Edin. Rev., vol. xxxiv. p. 73.)
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 283
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1. Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
2. Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
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