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名詞

damage feasant (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 damages feasant)

1. (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.

参照

• damage feasant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.