Neat Cattle - Law Dictionary Search Results
Neat cattle
Neat cattle, oxen or heifers....
Rinderpest
A highly contagious distemper or murrain affecting neat cattle and less commonly sheep and goats called also cattle plague Russian cattle plague and steppe murrain...
Neatherd
A person who has the care of neat cattle a cowherd...
Neathouse
A building for the shelter of neat cattle...
Nolt
Neat cattle...
Nowt
Neat cattle...
VerbarRuminantia
A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs This division includes the camels deer antelopes goats sheep neat cattle and allies...
Neat
Cattle of the genus Bos as distinguished from horses sheep and goats an animal of the genus Bos as a neats tongue a neats foot...
Black mail
Black mail [fr. maille, Fr., a small piece of money], a certain rent of money, coin, or other thing, anciently paid to persons upon or near the borders, who were men of influence and allied with robbers and brigands, for protection from the devastations of the latter. It was in fact a species of insurance. This was rendered illegal by 43 Eliz. C. 13. The same practice prevailed in Scotland, where it was also illegal. Also rent paid in cattle, otherwise called neat-gild; and all rents not paid in silver are called reditus nigri (black mail or rents), by way of distinction from reditus albi (blanch-firmes, or white-rents).But the term is used in modern times to signify extortion of money by threatening letters or threats to accuse of crime--an offence punishable, if the crime is punishable, by death or penal servitude for not less than seven years, or be an attempt at rape, or be an 'infamous crime,' i.e., sodomy, etc., by penal servitude for life, and in the case of a male under sixteen...
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