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Definition of Damage feasant

Damage feasant
Damage feasant Dam"age fea`sant [OF. damage + F. faisant doing, p. pr. See Feasible.] (Law) Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. --Blackstone.

Meaning of Damage feasant from wikipedia

- Distress damage feasant is a common law self-help legal remedy whereby a person who is in possession of land may impound a chattel which is wrongfully...
- to deal with the matter of the illegal distress of goods for rent or damage feasant, in order to procure their restoration to the owner. Illegal distress...
- distress damage feasant, which allowed a property owner to detain animals tresp****ing on his land to ensure that he was compensated for the damage they had...
- was also leviable as damage feasant. When animals stra**** and did damage to a neighbor, they could be retained until the damage was made good. Whether...
- firm's expenses plus an appropriate profit element" and that distress damage feasant (the distraining upon or withholding of goods involved in a tresp****...
- or statute. Damage feasant or faisant. Doing damage. A term applied to a person's cattle or beasts found upon another's land, doing damage by treading...
- that a man on horseback might be impounded with his beast if taken damage feasant; the owner of a field, who seized a tresp****er under these cir****stances...
- and sell the livestock under a common law remedy known as distress damage feasant. Under English law that right has now been abolished by section 7(1)...