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Animals may be divided into--(1) Domestic animals, such as dogs, horses, cows, etc., sometimes called animals mansuet' natur'. See White v. Fox, 48 TLR 641.(2) Animals that are naturally dangerous, i.e., wild beasts, such as lions, bears, etc.(3) Animals fer' natur', butharmless, such as hares, pheasants, partridges, etc. see FER' NATUR' and GAME.Animals of the first or second class are ordinary subjects of property in this country. But there is no property in those of the third class until they are caught or reclaimed. As to the liability of the owner for mischief done by a wild beast, or by a vicious domestic animal, see MISCHIEVOUS ANIMAL.Dogs. As to injury by dogs and seizure of stray dogs, see DOG.Malicious Damage. By the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 40, the unlawful and malicious killing, maiming, or wounding of cattle is made a felony. And by s. 41, the unlawful and malicious killing or wounding any animal not being cattle, but being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or be...
Fer' natur', animals
Fer' natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They are not whilst living the subjects of absolute property, so that they cannot be the subject of larceny, nor are they liable to distress for rent. But a man may acquire a qualified property in them, either (1) Per industriam, by his reclaiming and making them tame by art and industry, or by so confining them that they cannot escape, e.g., deer in a park, hares or rabbits in an enclosed warren, etc. The property in them only continues so long as they remain in a man's actual possession, but ceases if they regain their liberty, unless they have animus revertendi, as in the case of pigeons, tame hawks, etc. (2) Ratione impotenti', on account of their inability, as when birds, coneys, etc., make their nests or burrows on a mans' land, then he has a qualified property ...
Animal
Animal, 'Animal' means any living creature other than a human being. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2(a)]Animal includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians fish, other chordates and invertebrates and also includes their young and eggs. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(a)]In common parlance animal is understood as a quadruped creature but fish is also an animal but of a different kind. Prawn is included in the definition of fish as given in the Maritime Zones of India (Regulation of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act and has all the essential attributes of an animal viz. life, sensation and voluntary motion. It is therefore not possible to accept the contention that prawn is not a livestock, I.T.C. v. Person in charge, Agricultural Market Committee, (2004) 2 SCC 794 (799): AIR 2004 SC 1796. [Maritime Zones of India (Regulations of Fishing by Foreign Vessels) Act, 1981, ss. 2(b), 3 & 12]The word 'animal' denotes any living creature, other ...
Captive animal
Captive animal, means any animal (not being a domestic animal) which is in captivity or confinement, whether permanent or temporary, or which is subjected to any appliance or contrivance for the purpose of hindering or preventing its escape from captivity or confinement or which is pinioned or which is or appears to be maimed. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2 (c); See also Wild Life (Protection) Act (53 of 1972) s. 2(5)]Means any non-domestic animal of whatsoever kind or species, whether a quadruped or not, including any bird, fish or reptile, which is in captivity or confinement or is maimed, pinioned or subjected to any appliance or contrivance for hindering or preventing its escape, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 405, p. 199 [Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 15(a)-(d) (UK)]...
Mischievous animals
Mischievous animals. As to the liability of their owners the law recognizes two classes of animals (q.v.): (1) Animals naturally dangerous to man, such as a lion, tiger, or elephant, as to which the law is that the owner keeps it at his peril; he must prevent it from doing injury, and it is immaterial whether he knows the particular animal in question to be dangerous or not; (2) Animals generally of a harmless description either by nature or cultivation, as dogs, horses or oxen, as to which the rule is that the owner is not liable unless he knows that the particular animal was likely to do mischief, see Filburn v. People's Palace, etc., Co., (1890) 25 QBD 258; Manton v. Brocklebank, (1923) 2 KB 212. As to dangerous dogs, see DOG....
Wild animal
Wild animal, means any animal specified in Schedules I to IV and found wild in nature. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(36)]Wild animals, or animals fer' natur', animals of an untamable disposition. See ANIMALS, and FER' NATUR'....
Animal article
Animal article, 'animal article' means an article made from any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, and includes an article or object in which the whole or any part of such animal has been used, and ivory imported into India and an article made there form. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972, s. 2(2)]...
Domestic animal
Domestic animal, means any animal which is tamed or which has been or is being sufficiently tamed to serve some purpose for the use of man or which, although it neither has been nor is being nor is intended to be so tamed, is or has become in fact wholly or partly tamed. [Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 (59 of 1960), s. 2 (d)]Domestic animals includes all those domestic or tame animals as by habit or training live in association with man; Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 202, p. 83...
Baiting animals
Baiting animals. The fighting or baiting of any animal, or being concerned therein in any way, is punishable as 'cruelty,' under s. 1(1) of the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911, and the (English) Protection of Animals Act (1911) its Amendment Act, 1912, by fine, or imprisonment for not exceeding three months, or both....
Dangerous Wild Animals
Dangerous Wild Animals, any animal of a kind for the time being specified in the a Dangerous Wild Animals Act, 1976, Sch., s. 7(4) (UK)The kinds of animals so specified includes most species of non-domesticated cattle, goats and sheep, wild dogs and horses, marsupials, monkeys, lemurs and apes, sloths, armadillos, anteaters, porcupines, pandas, badgers, raccons, civets, walruses, seals and sealions, aarduarks, antelopes, wild cats and members of the cat family, gazelles, camels, monkeys, crocodiles and alligators, dangerous snakes, dangereus spiders, giraffes hippopotami, hyenas, elephants, rhinoceri, ostriches, tapires, emus, bears, cassowaries and pronghorns, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 396, p. 194....
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