Cattle whose owner is unknown
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
2 Kent's Com, 359.
See U. S. Digest and Supplement, Estray. In English law, an estray is any valuable animal, [whether beast or bird,] that is not wild, found within a lordship, and whose owner is not known; and which belongs to the king, or to the lord of the manor by special grant from the crown.* 1 BL Com. 297, 298.
2 Id. 14. 2 Steph. Com. 561, 662. 1 Crabb's Beat Prop. 513—518, §§ 666—671.