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Sheep-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 headed

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Sheeps foot

A printers tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other used as a lever and hammer...


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...


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