Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Feasant
Archaic. Doing or causing. See DAMAGE FEASANT.
damage feasant
n. [fr. French faisant dommage] Hist. Doing damage. 9 This phrase usu. refers to injury to a person's land caused by another person's animals trespassing on the property and eating the crops or treading the grass. By law, the owner of the damaged property could distrain and impound the animals until compensated by the animals' owner. But the impounder had to feed the animals and could not sell or harm them. The term was introduced during the reign of Edward III. - Also spelled damage faisant. - Also termed damnum facientes.
distress damage feasant
The right to seize animals or inanimate chattels that are damaging or encumbering land and to keep them as security until the owner pays compensation.