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damage-feasant Law.
Also 7 -feasaunt, -faisant, 7–8 -fesant.
[OF. damage fesant, F. dommage faisant, doing damage, causing loss.]
Said of a stranger's beasts, etc., found trepassing on a man's ground without his leave, and there doing him damage, as by feeding or otherwise. (Properly adj. phr.; also used as n.)
1621R. Bolton Stat. Irel. 191 (33 Hen. VIII), In any replegiare or second deliverance for rentes, customes, services or for damages feasaunt or other rent or rents. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xl. §18 If I leave my Angle-rod behind in another's ground he may take it Damage feasant. 1714Scroggs Courts-leet (ed. 3) 73 Any Thing distrained for Damage-feasant cannot be distrained for Rent. 1768Blackstone Comm. iii. i. III. 6. 1887 Edin. Rev. Jan. 77 The right of distraining animals trespassing as we now say ‘damage-feasant’. |