levant and couchant

A form of couchant and levant — Rising up and lying down; said of animals, indicating that they have been long enough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down at night and rise up to feed by day.

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Meanings

adjectivelevant and couchant (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of couchant and levant.

    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

    1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
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