Fallow Deer - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fallow deerFallow 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...
Fallow
Pale red or pale yellow as a fallow deer or greyhound...
Dama
a genus of deer including the Eurasian fallow deer Dama dama...
Doe
A female deer or antelope specifically the female of the fallow deer of which the male is called a buck Also applied to the female of other animals as the rabbit See the Note under Buck...
Bubale
A large antelope Alcelaphus bubalis of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible...
Deer
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-land
Fallow-land, land ploughed, but not sown, and left uncultivated for a time after successive crops....
Deer hedge
Deer hedge, the hedge enclosing a deer park....
Deer-fald
Deer-fald, a park or fold for deer....
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