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Poultry. As to the protection of live poultry from unnecessary suffering, see the Poultry Act, 1911, authorizing Orders for that purpose to be made under the Diseases of Animals Acts. See also Diseases of Animals Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 31)....
Disease (poultry)
Disease (poultry), means fowl pest in any of its form (including Newcastle disease and fowl plague) fowl cholera, infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngotra cheitis, pullorum disease, fowl typhoid, fowl pox and fowl paralysis; but the ministers may be order extend the definition to include other bird diseases or restrict it so as to exclude any of the foregoing diseases expert fowl pest in any of its forms, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 517, p. 286....
Meat
Meat, retail dealers in: see (English) Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 30), which provides for the compulsory closing of retail meat traders' shops and stalls on Sunday, with exemption in respect to Jewish retail dealers in meat, who may keep open on Sunday under license, on giving notice to the local authority and displaying notices as provided by the Act, but he must not keep open on Saturday. As to inspection and destruction of unsound meat, see (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 180, and see UNSOUND FOOD.Meat includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, shell or carapace, fat and flesh with or without skin, whether raw or cooked, or any wild animal or captive animal, other than a vermin. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(20)]Meat, the dictionary meaning of the word meat in terms of Webster's New International Dictionary is as 'meat-flesh of animals used as food as distinguished f...
Animals
Animals may be divided into--(1) Domestic animals, such as dogs, horses, cows, etc., sometimes called animals mansuet' natur'. See White v. Fox, 48 TLR 641.(2) Animals that are naturally dangerous, i.e., wild beasts, such as lions, bears, etc.(3) Animals fer' natur', butharmless, such as hares, pheasants, partridges, etc. see FER' NATUR' and GAME.Animals of the first or second class are ordinary subjects of property in this country. But there is no property in those of the third class until they are caught or reclaimed. As to the liability of the owner for mischief done by a wild beast, or by a vicious domestic animal, see MISCHIEVOUS ANIMAL.Dogs. As to injury by dogs and seizure of stray dogs, see DOG.Malicious Damage. By the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 40, the unlawful and malicious killing, maiming, or wounding of cattle is made a felony. And by s. 41, the unlawful and malicious killing or wounding any animal not being cattle, but being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or be...
Agricultural land
Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens other than as aforesaid, pleasure grounds, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and the like.'Unless there was evidence that forest lands had been, in some way set apart or earmarked for or linked up with an agricultural purpose, by their owners or occupiers, it could not be held that they are agricultural lands, Controller of Estate duty ...
Birds
Birds. Larceny may be committed at Common Law of domestic fowls, as hens, ducks, geese, etc. (1 Hale, PC 511), and of tame pigeons, though unconfined, Reg. v. Cheafor, (1851) 2 Den CCR 361, and of tame pheasants, Reg. v. Head, (1857) 1 F&F 350; or partridges, Reg. v. Shickle, (1868) LR 1 CCR 158. The (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 21-23, provides, that whoever shall steal, or kill with intent to steal, birds ordinarily kept in a state of confinement, or for any domestic purposes, not being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or shall be in possession of any such bird, or the plumage thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment.As to unlawfully and wilfully killing or wounding house doves or pigeons under circumstances not amounting to larceny at Common Law, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 23, and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 41. See also the (English) Poultry Act, 1911, and the Protection of Animals Act, 1911...
Cultivation
Cultivation, plants sprouted by natural growth, do not amount to cultivation, Alakh Ram v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (2004) 1 SCC 766. [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, s. 8(b)]Includes horticulture and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry including keeping or breeding livestock, poultry or bees, and growing fruit, vegetables and the like, Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61(1) (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1, p. 3.Cultivation, are deemed to include horticulture and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry, or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables, and the like, Agricultural Credits Act, 1928, s. 5(7) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 551, p. 295....
Manufacture
Manufacture, implies a change but every change is not manufacture. But something more is necessary and there must be transformation, a new and different article must emerge having a distinctive name, character or use, Hindustan Poles Corporation v. Commissioner of Central Excise, (2006) 4 SCC 85: (2006) 4 JT 185: (2006) 3 SCALE 601: (2006) 4 SLT 445: (2006) 3 SCJ 645: (2006) 6 SCJ D 230: (2006) 145 STC 625: (2006) 196 ELT 400.Manufacture, implies a change, but every change is not manufacture and yet every change of an article is the result of treatment, labour and manipulation. But something more is necessary and there must be transformation; a new and different article must emerge having a distinctive name, character or use, Union of India v. Delhi Cloth and General Mills, AIR 1963 SC 791.Implies a change, but every change is not manufacture and yet every change of an article is the result of treatment, labour and manipulation. But something more is necessary and there must be transfo...
Chaja
The crested screamer of Brazil Palamedea chavaria syn Chauna chavaria so called in imitation of its notes called also chauna and faithful kamichi It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry See Kamichi...
coccidium
any sporozoan of the order Coccidia parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates It is the causative agent of coccidiosis which can be a problem in poultry rearing...
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