Cows

domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age as wait till the cows come home...

Pawn or Pledge [fr. pignus, Lat.], a bailment of goods by a debtor to his creditor, to be kept till the debt is discharged.A mortgage of goods is in the Common Law distinguishable from a mere pledge or pawn. By a mortgage the whole legal title passes conditionally to the mortgagee; and if the goods be not redeemed at the stipulated time, the title becomes absolute at law although equity allows a redemption. But in a pledge, a special property only passes to the pledgee, the general property remaining in the pledgor. Also, in the case of a pledge, the right of a pledgee is not consummated, except by possession; and, ordinarily, when that possession is relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or may not be essential to create or support the title.As to things which may be the subject of pawn: These are, ordinarily, goods a...

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...

Beef

An animal of the genus Bos especially the common species Bos taurus including the bull cow and ox in their full grown state esp an ox or cow fattened for food...

Roquefort cheese

A highly flavored blue molded cheese made at Roquefort department of Aveyron France It is made from milk of ewes sometimes with cows milk added and is cured in caves Improperly a cheese made in imitation of it...

Cowherd

One whose occupation is to tend cows...

Rother-beasts

Rother-beasts, oxen, cows, steers, heifers, and such like horned animals, Jac. Law Dict....

Milk for meat

Milk for meat, i.e., that the agister of cows should take their milk in exchange for their pasturage. See London and Yorkshire Bank v. Belton, (1885) 15 QBD 457, where it was held that under such an agreement the farmer is taking a 'fair price' for the grass within s. 45 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883 (s. 35 of the Act of 1883), by which live stock taken in to be fed 'at a fair price' are exempted from distress for rent....

Horn with Horn, or Horn under Horn

Horn with Horn, or Horn under Horn, the promiscuous feeding of bulls and cows, or all horned beasts that are allowed to run together, upon the same common, Spelm...

Heirship movables

Heirship movables, those things which the law withholds from the executors and next of kin, and gives to the heir, that he may not succeed to a house and lands completely dismantled. They consist of the best of everything-furniture, horses, cows, oxen, farming utensils, etc., but do not include fungibles, Scots Law...

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