De parco fracto (Law Latin "of pound breach") is a historical common-law writ against a person, often an owner, "who breaks into a pound to rescue animals that have been legally distrained and impounded."Black's Law Dictionary (9th ed. 2009), de parco fracto
The writ is mentioned in Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England: "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."Black's Law Dictionary (9th ed. 2009), de parco fracto (quoting 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 146 (1768)).
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