abigeat
Noun
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Noun
abigeat (uncountable)
- (archaic) Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.
- 1676 [published 1848], John Lauder, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, T. Constable, vol 1., page 101 ↗:
- But the driving away of goods, or taking away, and detaining, another mans boat, without violence, by the number of 10 preſent, is a wrong, unwarrantable, and oppreſſive act, and a ſort of abigeat and thift, but is not properly a ryot […]
- 1676 [published 1848], John Lauder, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, T. Constable, vol 1., page 101 ↗:
- (theft of cattle) cattle-rustling
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