Ferret - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: ferretFerret
An animal of the Weasel family Mustela furo syn Putorius furo about fourteen inches in length of a pale yellow or white color with red eyes It is a native of Africa but has been domesticated in Europe Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes They are sometimes kept as pets...
Ferreter
One who ferrets...
Ferrets
Ferrets are not the subject of larceny at common law. See R. v. Searing, (1818) R. & R. 350. See FER' NATUR', ANIMALS....
Black footed ferret
a weasellike mammal Mustela nigripes inhabiting the western North American prairie having dark feet a dark tipped tail and a dark face on a yellowish brown coat It is an endangered species...
Ferret eye
The spur winged goose so called from the red circle around the eyes...
Foumart
The European polecat called also European ferret and fitchew See Polecat...
Mustelidae
A natural family of fissiped fur bearing carnivorous mammals including the weasels polecats ferrets minks fishers otters badgers skunks wolverines and martens...
Polecat
A small European carnivore of the Weasel family Putorius foeligtidus Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor Called also fitchet foulmart and European ferret...
Quirpele
The Indian ferret...
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 ...
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