Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

levant and couchant

adj. [Law French couchant et levant "lying down and rising up"] Hist. (Of cattle and other beasts) trespassing on land for a period long enough to have lain down to rest and risen to feed (usu. at least one night and one day). 0 This period was the minimum required as grounds for distraint. - Also termed couchant and levant.