levant and couchant

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levant and couchant (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of couchant and levant
    • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
      But if the lands were not sufficiently fenced so as to keep to out cattle , the landlord cannot distrain them till they have been levant and couchant on the land

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