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Definition of Agists
1. agist [v] - See also: agist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agists
Literary usage of Agists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1825)
"So, if a man agists cattle, part profitable and part unprofitable ; he shall pay
tithes ... If the owner of the soil agists the cattle, he pays the tithes ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: During by Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1823)
"It is impossible to ascertain the amount of interest which each person who agists
his cattle, has in the land; besides which, it cannot beforehand be ..."
3. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"RESOLVED, That if the occupier sows turnips, and then agists Occupier the sheep
of a stranger, or fattens his own sheep, and sells them, J?wgs '^ he shall ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"... his cow at Is. 6d. per week agists his cow in summer at 2s. per week.'
Line.— xxxvii. 531. See Agistment in Hal. Barrel. Twenty stone. Ireland.—i. 103. ..."
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