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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Four-footed animals

They were anciently divided into "beasts of the plow," — ^those used in husbandry; "beasts of the chase," — ^the buck, doe, fox, marten, and roe; "beasts of the forest," — the hart, hind, hare, boar, and wolf; and "beasts of the warren," — the hare and coney.

2 Bl. Comm. 39; Co. Litt. 233.