noun
- The right to fish in a body of water, especially a river or pond, typically granted to a person or community.
Usage: archaic; legal/property law term; chiefly British
Examples
- The landowner granted the tenant a piscary in the river that ran through the estate.
- Medieval documents often recorded piscary rights as valuable property interests.
- The village held a common piscary, allowing all residents to fish in the local pond.
- Disputes over piscary were common in feudal England when rights were unclear.
- The deed specified that the piscary extended only to the middle of the stream.