damage feasant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From an Old French phrase (compare modern French faisant dommage).
Noun[edit]
damage feasant (countable and uncountable, plural damages feasant)
- (law) The doing of damage; in particular, the doing by animals such as cattle of damage by trespassing.
- 1882 September 4, Dudley v McKenzie, a case before the Supreme Court of Vermont, reported in The Reporter: Containing Decisions of the Supreme and Circuit Courts:
- Actual damages must be shown to justify impounding cattle taken for damage feasant. Where there is no real damage, the cattle cannot be held for the costs.
- 1882 September 4, Dudley v McKenzie, a case before the Supreme Court of Vermont, reported in The Reporter: Containing Decisions of the Supreme and Circuit Courts:
References[edit]
- “damage feasant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.