Birds Nesting - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: birds nestingBirds nesting
Hunting for or taking birds nests or their contents...
Birds nest
The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young...
Cubilose
A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible birds nests...
Neossine
The substance constituting the edible birds nest...
Rooks
Rooks are animals (fer' natur'), and no action is maintainable for scaring them away from a rookery by discharging guns near it, Hannam v. Mockett, (1824) 2 B&C 934. But see FER' NATUR' and the qualified right of property, and therefore of action, ratione impotenti' in regard to young birds' nests....
nest egg
An egg left in the nest to prevent the hen from forsaking it and to induce her to lay more in the same place...
Nestful
As much or many as will fill a nest...
Birds
Birds. Larceny may be committed at Common Law of domestic fowls, as hens, ducks, geese, etc. (1 Hale, PC 511), and of tame pigeons, though unconfined, Reg. v. Cheafor, (1851) 2 Den CCR 361, and of tame pheasants, Reg. v. Head, (1857) 1 F&F 350; or partridges, Reg. v. Shickle, (1868) LR 1 CCR 158. The (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 21-23, provides, that whoever shall steal, or kill with intent to steal, birds ordinarily kept in a state of confinement, or for any domestic purposes, not being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or shall be in possession of any such bird, or the plumage thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment.As to unlawfully and wilfully killing or wounding house doves or pigeons under circumstances not amounting to larceny at Common Law, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 23, and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 41. See also the (English) Poultry Act, 1911, and the Protection of Animals Act, 1911...
Mino bird
An Asiatic bird Gracula musica allied to the starlings It is black with a white spot on the wings and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words It is one of the birds called mynah bird...
Birds eye
Seen from above as if by a flying bird embraced at a glance hence general not minute or entering into details as a birds eye view...
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