Agist

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Agist \A*gist"\, v. t. [OF. agister; [`a] (L. ad) + gister to
     assign a lodging, fr. giste lodging, abode, F. g[^i]te, LL.
     gistum, gista, fr. L. jacitum, p. p. of jac?re to lie: cf.
     LL. agistare, adgistare. See {Gist}.] (Law)
     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. --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  AGIST, in contracts. The taking of other men's cattle on one's own ground at
  a certain rate. 2 Inst. 643; 4 Inst. 293.