Estray
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An animal of value, not wild, found wandering from its owner; cattle whose owner is unknown.
2 Kent, Comm. 359.
It is essential (1) that the animal should be by its nature tame or reclaimable (1 Bl. Comm. 298); (2) that it should be an animal upon which the law sets a value (Id.); (3) that it should not only be away from the owner, but running at large (36 N. J. Law, 235). The manner in which the animal escaped from the owner has been said to be immaterial.
70 Iowa, 509. But see 63