Greyhound - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: greyhoundBrinjaree
A rough haired East Indian variety of the greyhound...
Fallow
Pale red or pale yellow as a fallow deer or greyhound...
Grayhound
See Greyhound...
Greyhound
A slender graceful breed of dogs remarkable for keen sight and swiftness It is one of the oldest varieties known and is figured on the Egyptian monuments...
Hound
A variety of the domestic dog usually having large drooping ears esp one which hunts game by scent as the foxhound bloodhound deerhound but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs as the greyhound boarhound etc...
Rach
A dog that pursued his prey by scent as distinguished from the greyhound...
Backberinde, Backverinde, or Backberend
Backberinde, Backverinde, or Backberend, bearing upon the back, or about a man. Where a thief is apprehended with the things stolen in his possession, also called being taken with the mainour, as having the goods in his hand, 2 Inst. 188. It was one of the four circumstances wherein a forester might have arrested the body of a trespasser in a forest; viz., dog-draw, i.e., drawing after a deer that he has hurt; stable-stand, i.e., at his standing with a knife, gun, bow, or greyhound, ready to shoot or course; backberend, i.e., carrying away upon his back the deer which he had killed; bloody-handed (red handed), i.e., when he had shot or coursed, and was imbrued with blood, 4 Inst. 294....
Leporarius
Leporarius, a greyhound, Cowel....
Qualification Act (English)
Qualification Act (English) (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25), by which any person not having freehold land of the yearly value of 100l., or for his life or for 99 years or more of the yearly value of 150l. other than the son and heir of an esquire or person of higher degree, or owners of parks or warrens, stocked with deer or conies for their necessary use in respect of the said parks and warrens,' was prohibited from having 'guns, bows, greyhounds, setting-dogs, ferrets, coney-dogs, lurchers, bags, nets, loubels, hare-pipes, gins, snares, or other engines,' for taking game-repealed, with many other Acts, by the Game Act, 1831. See GAME....
Stable-stand
Stable-stand, one of the four evidences or presumptions whereby a man is convicted to intend the stealing of the royal deer in the forest; and this is when a man is found at his standing in the forest, ready to shoot with a cross-bow bent at any deer, or with a long bow, or else standing close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip, Manwood, cap. 2, cap. 18....
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