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Home Dictionary Name: sheepSheep-scab
Sheep-scab. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (see AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, MINISTRY OF) may, by the Diseases of Animals Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 43), make an order 'for prescribing, regulating, and securing the periodical treatment of all sheep by effective dipping, or by the use of some other remedy for sheep scab.' For descriptions of the disease see extracts from Board of Agriculture 'Sheep-scab Order' in Chitty's Statutes, and Maclean v. Laidlaw, 1909 SC (J) 68....
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....
maned sheep
A type of wild sheep Ammotragus lervia of northern Africa called also Barbary sheep and aoudad...
Sheep-silver
Sheep-silver, a service turned into money, which was paid in respect that anciently the tenants used to wash the lord's sheep....
Sheep-stealing
Sheep-stealing, or killing sheep with intent to steal, is a felony, Larceny Act, 1916, ss. 3 and 4....
marco polo sheep
An Asiatic wild sheep Ovis poli with exceptionally large horns sometimes considered a variety of the argali Ovis ammon poli...
Sheep shearer
One who shears or cuts off the wool from sheep...
Sheep shearing
Act of shearing sheep...
Sheep-heaves
Sheep-heaves. 'Small plots of pasture often in the middle of a waste . . . the soil of which may or may not be in the lord, but the pasture is certainly a private property, and is leased and sold as such.'-Cooke, Inclos. Acts, 44....
Sheep-skin
Sheep-skin, a deed; from the parchment it was written on....
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