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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Cattle whose owner is unknown.

Spelman, Gloss.; Walters v. Glats, 29 la.

437; Roberts v. Barnes, 27 Wis. 422; Shepherd v. Hawley, 4 Or. 206; Lyman v. Gipson, 18 Pick. (Mass.) 426; but see Worthin any lordship, and not owned by any man.

Cowell; 1 Ma. Com. 297; 2 id. 14.

These belonged to the lord of the soil. Britt. c.

IT.

An animal turned on a range by its owner Is not an estray, although its immediate whereabouts is unknown to the owner, unless it wanders from the range and becomes lost; Stewart v. Hunter, 10 Or. 62, 1G Pac. 876, 8 Am. St. Rep. 207. It is used of flotsam at sea.

15 L. Q. R. 357.

See Animal; Running at Large.