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Deer. As to the right of property in deer, see Daivs v. Powell, (1739) 7 Mod 249. Deer in a park do not belong to the class of things qu' usu consumuntur [Paine v. Warwick (Countess), (1914) 2 KB 486]. The Larceny Act, 1861, contains many provisions as to killing and stealing deer, and otherwise for their protection (ss. 12-16); see Threlkeld v. Smith, (1901) 2 KB 531. See also Larceny Act, 1916, and as to compensation for damage by deer, see GAME.Means deer of any species and includes the car case of any deer or any part thereof, Deer Act, 1991,s. 16 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 320, p. 143....
Deer-leap, or deer's-leap
Deer-leap, or deer's-leap. The term apparently means two things: (1) generally, a strip running outside the paling of an ancient park, its breadth being the supposed distance a deer could leap; (2) a right enjoyed by the owner of a park which adjoins a forest or chase to maintain a high bank from which the deer out of the forest or chase could leap down into his park and be unable to get back again-in fact, a species of deer-trap. See Notes and Queries, Sec. Series, vol. iii., p. 195; Third Series, vol. xii., p. 186. Hence it is sometimes identified with freeboard, which see....
Fallow deer
A European species of deer Cervus dama much smaller than the red deer In summer both sexes are spotted with white It is common in England where it is often domesticated in the parks...
Deer hedge
Deer hedge, the hedge enclosing a deer park....
Deer-fald
Deer-fald, a park or fold for deer....
Deer-hayes
Deer-hayes, engines or great nets made of cord to catch deer, 19 Hen. 7, c. 11. Repealed...
Capreolus
a genus of deer including the roe deer Capreolus capreolus...
Cervicide
The act of killing deer deer slaying...
Cervidae
a natural family of deer including the reindeer moose elks muntjacs and roe deer...
Dama
a genus of deer including the Eurasian fallow deer Dama dama...
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