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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)]...
Animals
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...
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)]...
Hunting
Hunting, trapping of birds which comes within the purview of the meaning of the term 'hunting' is thus prohibited in terms of s. 9 of the Act, Chief Forest Officer v. Nisar Khan, AIR 2003 SC 1867 (1869): (2003) 4 SCC 595. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 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 wild or captive animal and every attempt to do so;(c) injuring or destroying or taking any part of the body of any such animal or, in the case of wild birds or reptiles, damaging the eggs of such birds or reptiles, or disturbing the eggs or nests of such birds or reptiles. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. (16)]...
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 ...
Zoo
Zoo, means an establishment, whether stationary or mobile, where captive animals are kept for exhibi-tion to the public and includes a circus and rescue centres but does not include an establishment of a licensed dealer in captive animals. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(39)]...
Meat
Meat, retail dealers in: see (English) Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 30), which provides for the compulsory closing of retail meat traders' shops and stalls on Sunday, with exemption in respect to Jewish retail dealers in meat, who may keep open on Sunday under license, on giving notice to the local authority and displaying notices as provided by the Act, but he must not keep open on Saturday. As to inspection and destruction of unsound meat, see (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 180, and see UNSOUND FOOD.Meat includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, shell or carapace, fat and flesh with or without skin, whether raw or cooked, or any wild animal or captive animal, other than a vermin. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(20)]Meat, the dictionary meaning of the word meat in terms of Webster's New International Dictionary is as 'meat-flesh of animals used as food as distinguished f...
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 freshly-killed wild animal, ambergris, musk and other animal products. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(32)]...
Coursing
Coursing. The chasing of an animal with dogs who 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) 2 QB 57; Waters v. Meakin, (1916) 2 KB 111; Jenkins v. Ash, (1929) 93 J.P. 229. As to dog racing on licenced tracks, see 24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 28...
Dealer, auction
Dealer, auction, a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them, Auctions (Bidding Agreements) Act, 1927, s. 1(2) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 944, p. 461.means a person carrying on the business of selling fertilisers, whether wholesale or retail (or industrial use), and includes a manufacturer and a pool-handling agency carrying on such business and the agents of such person, manufacturer or pool-handling agency, State of Punjab v. Gunomajra Cooperative Agriculture Service Society Ltd., (2000) 9 SCC 210.There is nothing either in the main definition in s. 2(5) or in the Explanation of the Orissa Taxation (on Goods Carried by Road and Inland Water ways) Act, 1959 to suggest that the manager or agent of the dealer (principal) should have his own business within the State of Orissa before he could be proceeded against or assessed under the Act. It would be sufficient if the manager...
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