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To hold someone to ransom

To hold someone to ransom, means 'to hold some-one captive and demand payment for their release, Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 2002, p. 1186.

Trophy

Trophy, Trophy means the whole or any part of any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, which has been kept or preserved by any means, whether artificial

Uncured trophy

Uncured trophy, means the whole of any part of any captive animal or wild animal, other than vermin, which has not undergone a process of taxidermy, and includes a

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Coursing

follow by sight and not by scent and capture it by their swiftness. As to the coursing of captive animals, see the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 1, sub-s. 3 (b); Aplin v. Porritt, (1893)

Disenamor

To free from the captivity of love

Charities, or Public Trusts

maids; supportation, aid, and help of young tradesmen, handicraftsmen, and persons decayed; relief or redemption of prisoners or captives; and aid or ease of any poor inhabitants, concerning payments of fifteenths, setting out of soldiers, and other

Birds

Poultry Act, 1911, and the Protection of Animals Act, 1911, as to cruelty to birds; and the (English) Captive Birds Shooting (Prohibition) Act, 1921, which prohibits the shooting of pigeons released from traps, etc. All wild birds

Animals

statutes are repealed and further provision made for the punishment of persons guilty of cruelty to domestic or captive animals, and the Court is empowered to order the destruction of the animal where necessary, and to deprive

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

Redemptionist

founded in 1197 so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans Called also Trinitarian

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