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Definition of Agistors
1. agistor [n] - See also: agistor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agistors
Literary usage of Agistors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"THERE were "four agistors for the forest of Bernwood, whose office obliged them
to take care of the feeding of hogs within the King's demesne woods, ..."
2. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1917)
"agistors and livery stable keepers.—An agis- tor is one who takes cattle, horses,
pigs, or sheep upon his land for pasturage. The common law did not accord ..."
3. A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections by Matthew Bacon, Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd, John Bouvier (1846)
"... teneat'ir in regno nostro nisi ter in anno, viz., fifteen days before the
feast jf St. Michael, when the agistors of the king's woods do meet to take ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1825)
"And there ought to he a commission from the justice in eyre to the agistors, &.c.
to make an agistment, upon which they return what they do. ..."
5. Digest of the Reports of the Supreme Court of California: Volumes One by James Henry Deering (1896)
"City of National City, 102 Cal. 377.) LIENS. agistors'. See agistors. Laborer's lien
ол miming ... See agistors. 3. Waiver of. what amounts to. ..."
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