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Definition of Agisters
1. agister [n] - See also: agister
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agisters
Literary usage of Agisters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on the Law of Contracts and Rights and Liabilities Ex Contractu by Charles Greenstreet Addison (1847)
"... agisters of CATTLE, FACTORS, and BAILIFFS.—All persons to whom goods and
chattels are delivered to be kept for hire and reward, and who are paid ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Lien, and Stoppage in Transitu by John Cross (1859)
"agisters.—AUCTIONEERS — COACHMAKERS. ... Ihe tificate. costs, in such case, can
only be recovered by action in the ordinary way. f bankrupt i cer- agisters ..."
3. Commercial Law: A Treatise for Business Men on the Law Applicable to by Charles William Gerstenberg, Thomas Welburn Hughes (1914)
"At common law agisters and liverymen, unlike other bailees who accept the custody
of goods for compensation, were not given a lien, ..."
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