Sheep Stealing - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Sheep-stealing, or killing sheep with intent to steal, is a felony, Larceny Act, 1916, ss. 3 and 4....
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....
steal
steal stole sto·len steal·ing [Old English stelan] : to take or appropriate without right or consent and with intent to keep or make use of see also robbery, theft ...
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....
Shroud-stealing
Shroud-stealing. If any one, in taking up a dead body, steal the shroud or other apparel, it will be felony; for the property therein remains with the executor, or whoever was at the charge of the funeral, 3 Inst. 110; 1 Hale, P.C. 535...
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....
Child-stealing
Child-stealing. See the (English) Offences against the Person Act,1861, s. 56, which applies to children under fourteen, and punishes decoying either by force or fraud....
Dog stealing
Dog stealing is punishable on summary conviction, for the first offence, by six months' imprisonment and hard labour, or fine not exceeding 20l. beyond the value of the dog. A second offence is, however, an indictable misdemeanour, punishable by imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding eighteen months. Similar punishment is provided for persons found in possession of dogs or their skins, knowing them to have been stolen, and a justice may order the restoration of the stolen property to the owner. Corruptly taking money or reward, to aid in the recovery of a stolen dog, is punishable by imprisonment with or without hard labour for eighteen months. Dogs are not the subject of larceny at common law. See (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 18, 19, 21 and 22; Larceny Act, 1916, ss. 5 and 48, and Sched...
Stealing
Stealing. See LARCENY....
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