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Ferae naturae

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Stimson (1881)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Animals wild by nature. See 14 Wend. (N. Y.) 42.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

I. (Of a wild nature.) A term applied to animals not -usually tamed, as distinguished from those domitae naturae, domestic.