The right of distress damage feasant is abolished in relation to animals.

The common law provided a form of self-help remedy to a person harmed by straying livestock by way of distress damage feasant.

Curiously, another source of lawful authority will be the common law right of distress damage feasant- that is, to seize and impound trespassing vehicles.

An Account of the Development and Present Law of Tortious Liability for Animals, Distress Damage Feasant and the Duty to Fence.

In any event, based on the facts of the this case, were distress damage feasant to be levied then the landowner or his agent could only seek the value of damages caused and nothing further.

I can distrain them damage feasant, but what I want to do is to get rid of them and I am certainly not bound to incur the expense of packing and returning them.

The principal instances of extra-judicial remedies are distress damage feasant of cattle trespassing, and removal of a trespasser without unnecessary violence, expressed in the terms of Latin pleading by 'molliter manus imposuit'.

All the same, s.99 RTA only relates to vehicles causing an obstruction, so mere unpermitted occupation of land would still not be covered and the landowner would have to rely on his/her common law right of distress damage feasant.

Although it seems from the current case law that there are big problems with treating clamping as a levy of distress damage feasant, I can't see why landowners and their agents cannot simply change their practice and still have a remedy against errant drivers.