DE PARCO FRACTO
de parco fracto (dee pahr-koh frak-toh), n.[Law Latin “of pound breach”] Hist. A writ against
someone, esp. an owner, who breaks into a pound to rescue animals that have been legally
distrained and impounded.
“And, being thus in the custody of the law, the taking them back by force is looked upon as
an atrocious injury, and denominated a rescous, for which the distreinor has a remedy in damages,
either by writ of rescous, in case they were going to the pound, or by writ de parco fracto, or
pound-breach, in case they were actually impounded.” 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on
the Laws of England 146 (1768). [Blacks Law 8th]