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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....

Cowherd

One whose occupation is to tend cows...

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...

Commonable beasts

Commonable beasts, such as are necessary for the ploughing or manuring of land, as horses, oxen, cows, and sheep....

Live stock

Live stock, the word 'livestock' includes animals of every description. It is not confined to domestic animals, Royal Hatcheries v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1994 SC 666: 1994 Supp (1) SCC 429.Livestock means domestic animal especially horses, cattle, sheep and pigs (see Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 737). Historically these animals are associated with agriculture as they either help in carrying out agricultural operations or they are domestically maintained in agricultural fields because they can feed on products or by-products of agriculture in its narrow sense. Fishes are not domestic animals and are not included within the meaning of the term 'livestock', Maheshwari Fish Seed Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705 (713).Means farm animals and includes buffaloes, bulls, bullocks, camels, cows, donkeys, goats, sheep, horses, mules, yaks, pigs, ducks, geese, poultry and their young but does not include any animal specified in Schedules I to V. [Wild Life (Prot...

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...

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