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Slaughterhouses

places commonly called slaughter-houses and knacker's yards, and any building or place used for slaughtering cattle, horses or animals of any description for sale. As to the powers of the Ministry of Agriculture to regulate and restrict

Veterinary Surgeon

Surgeon [fr. veterinarius, concerned with veterinum, a beast of burden]. A person who treats the illnesses, etc., of animals. A Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was incorporated in 1844, and supplemental charters were granted thereto in 1876

Medicine or drug

Medicine or drug, means-- (i) all medicines for internal or external use of human beings or animals; (ii) all substances intended to be used for or in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation or prevention of diseases

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Vivis

Vivis., the dissecting of animals alive, for the purpose of scientific experiments, may only be practised by persons holding a licence from a

Glandered horses

Privy Council power to apply its provisions to horses and glanders and farcy; and the (English) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, s. 22, sub-ss. Xxxv. And xxxvi., appears to give a similar power to the Ministry of

Fowls domestic

to the prevention of cruelty to fowls, see the (English) Poultry Act, 1911, and the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911, and Diseases of Animals Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 31), and see ANIMALS.

Domestic animal

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

Circus

Circus, means an establishment, whether stationary or mobile, where animals are kept or used wholly or mainly for the purpose of performing tricks or manoeuvers. [Wild Life (Protection)

Hunting

1972, s. 2(16)] With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes: (a) killing or poisoning of any wild animal or captive animal and every attempt to do so; (b) capturing, coursing, snaring, trapping, driving or baiting any

Life

205. The word 'life' in Art. 21, means not merely the right to the continuance of a person's animal of existence, but a right to the possession of each his organs - his arms and legs etc.,

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