Goat - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: goatBilly goat
A male goat...
Goat
A hollow horned ruminant of the genus Capra of several species and varieties esp the domestic goat Capra hircus which is raised for its milk flesh and skin...
Jaal goat
A species of wild goat Capra Nubiana found in the mountains of Abyssinia Upper Egypt and Arabia called also beden and jaela...
Goatsucker
One of several species of insectivorous birds belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera esp the European species Caprimulgus Europaeligus so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats The European species is also goat milker goat owl goat chaffer fern owl night hawk nightjar night churr churr owl gnat hawk and dorhawk...
Cattle
Cattle [derived by Skinner, Menage, and Spelman fr. Capitalia, quac aspr copr ad caput pertinent, personal goods; in which sense Chttels is yet used. Mandeville uses Catele for price], beasts of pasture, either wild or domestic.The term, though often limited to horned domestic animals, may include (see Wright v. Pearson, LR 4 QB 582) horses and sheep; and also pigs and asses, R. v. Chapple, Russ & Ry. 77; R. v. Whitney, 1 Mood. 3.Means bulls, cows, steers, heifers and calves, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 483, p. 246 [Animal Health Act, 1981, s. 89(1) (UK)]As to injury to cattle by a dog, see Dogs Act, 1906, in which, by s. 7, 'cattle' includes 'horses, mules, asses, goats and swine.' See Dog.As to larceny of cattle, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3, and as to killing cattle, etc., with intent to steal the carcase, skin, or any part of the animal killed, see s. 4.As to the malicious wounding of cattle, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 40 and 41.As to the prevention o...
Chamal
The Angora goat See Angora goat under Angora...
Hircine
Goatlike of or pertaining to a goat or the goats...
Paseng
The wild or bezoar goat See Goat...
Beden
The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex Capra Nubiana It is probably the wild goat of the Bible...
Bezoar
A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals as the wild goat the gazelle and the Peruvian llama formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison and a certain remedy for eruptive pestilential or putrid diseases Hence Any antidote or panacea...
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