Maggot - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: maggotBlowfly
Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvaelig called flyblows and maggots upon meat or other animal products...
Diptera
An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers as the house fly mosquito etc They have a suctorial proboscis often including two pairs of sharp organs mandibles and maxillaelig with which they pierce the skin of animals They undergo a complete metamorphosis their larvaelig called maggots being usually without feet...
Larva
Any young insect from the time that it hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa or chrysalis During this time it usually molts several times and may change its form or color each time The larvaelig of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits but have no trace of wings the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage In other groups of insects the larvaelig are totally unlike the parents in structure and habits and are called caterpillars grubs maggots etc...
Maggot
The footless larva of any fly See Larval...
Maggot pie
A magpie...
Maggoty
Infested with maggots...
Mediterranean fruit fly
A small two winged fly Ceratitis capitata a native of the Mediterranean countries but now widely distributed in warm regions which can cause great damage to citrus and other succulent fruit crops when present in large numbers It is black and white and irregularly banded It lays eggs in ripening oranges peaches and other fruits when the eggs hatch into larvae maggots inside the fruit they cause the fruit to decay and fall and make the fruit unsaleable It is also popularly called the medfly...
Sheep
Sheep, injury to, by dogs, action for, under the Dogs Act, 1906, and the Amendment Act of 1928. See DOG. As to cruelty by allowing them to become infested with maggots, see Potter v. Challans, (1910) 102 LT 324.Sheep of a tenant are exempt from distress for rent conditionally i.e. if there be other sufficient distress on the demised premises, by the Statute of Marlbridge (51 Hen. 3, s. 4), and this exemption extends to the sheep of an under-tenant, Keen v. Priest, (1859) 28 LJ Ex 157....
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