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Cattle [derived by Skinner, Menage, and Spelman fr. Capitalia, quac aspr copr ad caput pertinent, personal goods; in which sense Chttels is yet used. Mandeville uses Catele for price], beasts of pasture, either wild or domestic.The term, though often limited to horned domestic animals, may include (see Wright v. Pearson, LR 4 QB 582) horses and sheep; and also pigs and asses, R. v. Chapple, Russ & Ry. 77; R. v. Whitney, 1 Mood. 3.Means bulls, cows, steers, heifers and calves, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 483, p. 246 [Animal Health Act, 1981, s. 89(1) (UK)]As to injury to cattle by a dog, see Dogs Act, 1906, in which, by s. 7, 'cattle' includes 'horses, mules, asses, goats and swine.' See Dog.As to larceny of cattle, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3, and as to killing cattle, etc., with intent to steal the carcase, skin, or any part of the animal killed, see s. 4.As to the malicious wounding of cattle, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 40 and 41.As to the prevention o...
Cattle fair
Cattle fair, the expression 'cattle fair' is not defined in the Act. The Legislature, when it did not furnish the definition of the expression 'cattle fair' must be deemed to have used the expression in its ordinary signification, as meaning, a periodical concourse of buyers and sellers in generally a place for sale and purchase of cattle at times or on occasions ordained custom, Municipal Committee v. State of Punjab, AIR 1969 SC 1100 (1104): (1969) 1 SCC 475. [Punjab Cattle Fairs (Regulation) Act, (6 of 1968)...
Cattle fodder
Cattle fodder, in generic sense the expression 'cattle fodder' is inclusive of everything that is fed to cattle including damaged wheat, C.S.T. v. Ram Chandra Asa Ram, (2001) 9 SCC 313 (316). [Uttar Pradesh Trade Tax Act, 1948 (15 of 1948), s. 3, Notification date 5-6-1985, Entry 10]...
Bovine cattle
Bovine cattle, the expression species of 'bovine cattle' is wide enough to include and does in ordinary parlance include buffaloes, (male, or female adults or calves), Mohd. Hanif Quareshi v. State of Bihar, AIR 1958 SC 731 (737): 1959 SCR 731. [Bihar Preservation and Improvement of Animals Act, 1956 (2 of 1956), s. 2]...
Cattle-gate
Cattle-gate, common for one beast.Gated or stinted pastures are types of commonable lands which prevail largely in the north of England and the rights over them are known by a number of different names, such as cattlegate, beastgate, pasturegate, Mellington v. Goodtitle, (1738) Andr 106....
Great cattle
Great cattle, all manner of beasts except sheep and yearlings...
Neat cattle
Neat cattle, oxen or heifers....
Agistment
Agistment [fr. jacere,:at.; gesir, Fr., to lie, whence giste, a lodging], the taking in of other men's cattle into pasture-land, at a certain rate per week, without letting them the land for their exclusive use as tenants; so called because the cattle are suffered agiser, i.e., to be levant et couchant there. Also the profit of such feeding. As to the extent to which the 'agister' is liable for negligence in the keeping of the cattle, see Halestrap v. Gregory, (1895) 1 QB 561. A restriction upon the power of distraining agisted cattle (in some parts of the country called 'tacks') for rent is imposed by s. 35 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923. See also Manwood's Forest Laws, cc. 11-80, where to 'agist' is to take in and feed strangers' cattle in the Royal Forest and to collect the money due for it. Agistment does not include a right of lien, Chapman v. Allen, 1631 Cro Car 271.Agistment of sea banks [terr' agitat', Lat.] is where lands are charged with a tribute to keep out the sea....
Dishonestly
Dishonestly, The word dishonestly is defined by s. 24 of Indian Penal Code. A person who does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person, Dr. S. Dutt v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1966 SC 523: (1966) 1 SCR 493.A person is said to do a thing dishonestly when he does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person. In the case of illegal seizures and impounding of cattle, the person seizing the cattle does not gain anything. He simply takes the cattle to the pound. He does not use them for his purpose, Ramratan v. State of Bihar, AIR 1965 SC 926 (931). (Penal Code, 1860, s. 378: Cattle Trespass Act, 1871, s. 10)--Whoever does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss of another person, is said to do that thing dishonestly (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 24)....
Hayward
Hayward, one who keeps a common herd, of cattle of a town, and the reason of his being so called may be, because one part of his office is to see that they neither break nor cross the hedges of enclosed lands; or because he keeps the grass from hurt or destruction. He is an officer appointed in the lord's Court, to look to the fields and impound cattle trespassing thereon; to see that no pound breaches be made, and if any be, to present them to the leet, etc.,-Kitch. 46; Scriven on Copyholds.A officer of a town or man or responsible for maintaining fences and hedges, esp. to prevent cattle from breaking through to an enclosed pasture; A cattle herdsman, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 723...
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