Agistare

Concept of “Agistare, Agistor, Agist”

Traditional meaning of agistare, agistor, agist in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) To put; place; assign; apportion. To take in the cattle of strangers to feed in a royal forest. To take cattle to pasture at a certain rate of compensation.

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1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Agistare, Agistor, Agist”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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