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Cattle [derived by Skinner, Menage, and Spelman fr. Capitalia, quac aspr copr ad caput pertinent, personal goods; in which sense Chttels is yet used. Mandeville uses Catele for price], beasts of pasture, either wild or domestic.The term, though often limited to horned domestic animals, may include (see Wright v. Pearson, LR 4 QB 582) horses and sheep; and also pigs and asses, R. v. Chapple, Russ & Ry. 77; R. v. Whitney, 1 Mood. 3.Means bulls, cows, steers, heifers and calves, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 483, p. 246 [Animal Health Act, 1981, s. 89(1) (UK)]As to injury to cattle by a dog, see Dogs Act, 1906, in which, by s. 7, 'cattle' includes 'horses, mules, asses, goats and swine.' See Dog.As to larceny of cattle, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3, and as to killing cattle, etc., with intent to steal the carcase, skin, or any part of the animal killed, see s. 4.As to the malicious wounding of cattle, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 40 and 41.As to the prevention o...
Shorling
The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off as distinct from the morling or skin taken from the dead sheep also a sheep of the first years shearing...
Wool
Wool, the word 'wool' has been used therein only in the sense in which the word 'Oon' is understood in the trade by the dealer and the consumer in the popular sense namely that which people conversant with the word 'Oon' would attribute to it. If any one goes to the market to purchase wool (Oon) he would be offered only sheep-hair and not goat-hair or camel hair or for the matter of that the hair of any other animal. Indeed, there is intrinsic evidence in the Schedule itself of the fact that in the English version the word 'wool (Oon)' and in the Hindi version 'Oon' only at Item No. 41 has been used in the same popular sense namely that of sheep-hair, Madanlal Manoharlal v. State of Haryana, AIR 1990 SC 556 (559): (1999) 1 SCC 184. [Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (23 of 1961), s. 2(a) and Sch., Items 41, 75, 76...
Fer' natur', animals
Fer' natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They are not whilst living the subjects of absolute property, so that they cannot be the subject of larceny, nor are they liable to distress for rent. But a man may acquire a qualified property in them, either (1) Per industriam, by his reclaiming and making them tame by art and industry, or by so confining them that they cannot escape, e.g., deer in a park, hares or rabbits in an enclosed warren, etc. The property in them only continues so long as they remain in a man's actual possession, but ceases if they regain their liberty, unless they have animus revertendi, as in the case of pigeons, tame hawks, etc. (2) Ratione impotenti', on account of their inability, as when birds, coneys, etc., make their nests or burrows on a mans' land, then he has a qualified property ...
Disease
Disease, means an impairment or the normal state or the living animal that interrupts or modifies the performance of the vital functions being a response to environmental factors (as malnutrition, industrial hazards, or climate) or to specific infective agents (as worms, bacteria, or viruses) or to inherent defects of the organism (as various genetic anomalies) or to combinations of these factors, State of Goa v. Colfox Laboratories Ltd., (2004) 9 SCC 83: AIR 2004 SC 45(50).Means cattle plague or rinderpest, contagious pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, foot and mouth disease, sheep-pox, sheep scab or swine fever. Animal Health Act, 1981 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 484, p. 247....
Bercaria
Bercaria, a sheep-fold or other enclosure to keep sheep....
Berbecaria
Berbecaria, a sheep-down, or ground to feed sheep....
Barcarium
Barcarium, a sheep-cote; a sheep-walk....
Agricultural produce
Agricultural produce, Sugar is 'Agricultural Produce', Kishan Lal v. State of Rajasthan, 1990 Supp SCC 742 (745): AIR 1990 SC 2569. [Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (38 of 1961), s. 2(1) (i)]The term 'agricultural produce' according to its definition contained under s. 2(a) of the Act means all produce, whether processed or not, of agricultural, horticulture, animal husbandry or forest as specified in the Schedule to the Act. Sheep-hair is consequently an agricultural produce within the meaning of the Act so that the various provisions therein with regard to agricultural produce are applicable to sheep-hair also, Modanlal Manoharlal v. State of Haryana, (1990) 1 SCC 184: AIR 1990 SC 556 (559). [Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (23 of 1961) s. 2(a)]See also Belsund Sugar Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1999) 9 SCC 620: AIR 1999 SC 3125. [Bihar Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1960 (16 of 1960) ss. 2(1)(a), 27 and 15]Agricultural produce includes food stuffs b...
Live stock
Live stock, the word 'livestock' includes animals of every description. It is not confined to domestic animals, Royal Hatcheries v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1994 SC 666: 1994 Supp (1) SCC 429.Livestock means domestic animal especially horses, cattle, sheep and pigs (see Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 737). Historically these animals are associated with agriculture as they either help in carrying out agricultural operations or they are domestically maintained in agricultural fields because they can feed on products or by-products of agriculture in its narrow sense. Fishes are not domestic animals and are not included within the meaning of the term 'livestock', Maheshwari Fish Seed Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705 (713).Means farm animals and includes buffaloes, bulls, bullocks, camels, cows, donkeys, goats, sheep, horses, mules, yaks, pigs, ducks, geese, poultry and their young but does not include any animal specified in Schedules I to V. [Wild Life (Prot...
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