Feorme
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A certain portion of the produce of the land due by the grantee to the lord according to the terms of the charter. Spelman, Feuds c.
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FER^ BESTIR. Wild beasts. FER>€ NATUR/E (Lat of a wild nature; untamed). A term used to designate animals not usually tamed, or not regarded as reclaimed so as to become the subject of property. Such animals belong to the person who has captured them only while they are in his power; for if they regain their liberty his property In them Instantly ceases, unless they have animum revertendi, which Is to be known only by their habit of returning; 2 Bla. Com. 386; Wallis v. Mease, 3 Binn. (Pa.) 646; Brooke, Abr. Propertie 37; Com. Dig. Biens, F; 7 Co. 17 b; Inst 2.
1. 15; [1896] 1 Q. B. 166.
Property In animals ferw naturw is not acquired by hunting them and pursuing them; if, therefore, another person kills such animal In the sight of the pursuer, he has a right to appropriate it to his own use; Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. (N. Y.) 175, 2 Am. Dec. 264. But if the pursuer brings the animal wit Mn his own control, as by entrapping it or wounding it mortally, so as to render escape impossible, it then belongs to him; id.; though if he abandons it another person may afterwards acquire property in the animal; Buster v. Newkirk, 20 Johns. (N. Y.) 76. The owner of land has a qualified property In animals ferce natures when, in consequence of their Inability and youth, they cannot go away. See Year B. 12 Hen. VIII. (9 B, 10 A); 2 Bla. Com. 394; Bacon, Abr. Oame. A Louisiana statute was held constitutional which prescribed that dogs are only to be regarded as personal property when recorded on assessment rolls. The court said: “The very fact that they are without protection of the criminal laws shows that property in dogs is an imperfect or qualified nature, and that they stand, as it were, between animals fercB naturw, in which until subdued there is V. R. Co., 166 U. S. 698, 17 Sup. Ct. 693, 41 L. Ed. 1169. See Game; Animals. FERDELLA TERR^. A fardel land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land.
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