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Hayward

hurt or destruction. He is an officer appointed in the lord's Court, to look to the fields and impound cattle trespassing thereon; to see that no pound breaches be made, and if any be, to present them

Damage feasant or faisant

doing damage by feeding, or otherwise, to the grass, corn, wood, etc., the person damaged may distrain and impound them, as well by night as in the day, lest the beasts escape before taken; but they cannot

Anticipation

of property subject to restraint on anticipation, and the Trustee Act, 1925, s. 62, enables the Court to impound the interest, although restrained to indemnify a trustee for a breach of trust instigated or consented to by

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Hayward

guard hedges and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large

search

authority over the place or things to be searched inventory search : a warrantless search (as of an impounded automobile) conducted for the purpose of placing personal property in safekeeping to prevent loss of the property and

Hogreeve

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large

Namation

A distraining or levying of a distress an impounding

Pound breach

The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals

Amends, tender of

not recovering more than the sum tendered, etc. As to tender upon distress (q.v.), whether before or after impounding but before sale, see Johnson v. Upham, (1859) 2 E&E 250. For wrongful distress, see (English) Distress for

Detainer

original taking may have been lawful. As if I distrain another's cattle, damage feasant, and before they are impounded he tenders me sufficient amends; now, though the original taking was lawful, my subsequent detention of them, after

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