1. A type of bailment in which a person, for a fee, allows animals to graze on his or her pasture; the taking in of cattle or other livestock to feed at a per-animal rate. [Cases: Animals 21. C.J.S. Animals § 46.]
2. A charge levied upon the owner or occupier of land.
— Also termed gisement. See TITHE OF AGISTMENT.
agistment of sea-banks. Hist. A charge on land used to pay for the upkeep of dikes that prevent the encroachment of the sea.