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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 ...
Domestic animals, livestock
Domestic animals, livestock, livestock means domestic animals especially horses, cattle, sheep and pigs (See Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 737). Historically these animals are associated with agriculture as they either help in carrying out agricultural operations or they are domestically maintained in agricultural fields because they can feed on products or by products of agriculture in its narrow sense. Fishes are not domestic animals and are not included within the meaning of the term 'livestock', Maheshwari Fish Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705: AIR 2004 SC 2341 (2345)....
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....
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....
Bovine animals
Bovine animals, means live animals of the domestic bovine species other than pure-bred breeding animals, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), 4th Edn., Para 1046, p. 682....
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....
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 ...
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)]...
Cruelty to animals
Cruelty to animals. See ANIMALS....
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