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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
See Net. The phrase neat cattle, in its popular meaning, as well as in the sense in which it is used in the Texas criminal code, means a species of animals having an essential identity in qualities, to be taken and considered either collectively or individually.
Hubotter v. State, 32 Tex. 479.
An indictment under a statute punishing the stealing of cattle, which charged a theft of " three head of neat stock or beeves," was held uncertain. AH neat stock are not beeves.
Castello v. State, 36 Tex. 324.