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Dead animal, includes reference to the body of an animal which is frozen, dried or preserved by chemical, or to a body which, although not complete (having been, e.g. stuffed), is substantially complete and externally substantially resembles a complete body, Endangered Species (Import and Export) Act, 1976, s. 12(2) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 241, p. 101....
Eremacausis
A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals...
Hornbill
Any bird of the family Bucerotidaelig of which about sixty species are known belonging to numerous genera They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia Africa and the East Indies and are remarkable for having a more or less horn like protuberance which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven or even larger They feed chiefly upon fruit but some species eat dead animals...
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 ...
Poison
Any agent which when introduced into the animal organism is capable of producing a morbid noxious or deadly effect upon it as morphine is a deadly poison the poison of pestilential diseases...
Die
To pass from an animate to a lifeless state to cease to live to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions to become dead to expire to perish said of animals and vegetables often with of by with from and rarely for before the cause or occasion of death as to die of disease or hardships to die by fire or the sword to die with horror at the thought...
dangerous
dangerous 1 : creating a risk of bodily injury [a condition of a public building] 2 : able or likely to inflict esp. serious bodily injury [a criminal with no regard for human life] [a animal] ;also : deadly 3 : likely to engage in repeated criminal activity [a offender] NOTE: The activity that an offender is likely to engage in need not involve violence in order for the offender to be deemed dangerous. ...
Quick
Alive living animate opposed to dead or inanimate...
Carrion
The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food...
Mortling
An animal as a sheep dead of disease or privation a morling...
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