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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

agistment

1. a type of bailment in which a person, for a fee, allows animals to graze on his or her pasture; the taking in of cattle or other livestock to feed at a per-animal rate. 2. a charge levied upon the owner or occupier of land. see tithe of agistment.

agistment of sea-banks

hist. a charge on land used to pay for the upkeep of dikes that prevent the encroachment of the sea.

tithe of agistment

Hist. A church-levied charge on grazing land. ( The tithe was paid by the occupier of the land rather than the person whose cattle grazed on the land. See AGISTMENT.