levant and couchant
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[edit]levant and couchant (not comparable)
- Alternative form of couchant and levant
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- 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