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Defined in 6 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Burrill (1850)

United States Code

15 U.S.C. § 69 — as used in this subchapter

The term “fur” means any animal skin or part thereof with hair, fleece, or fur fibers attached thereto, either in its raw or processed state, but shall not include such skins as are to be converted into leather or which in processing shall have the hair, fleece, or fur fiber completely removed.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A thief.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Skins valuable chiefly on account of the fur. Skins is a term appropriated to those valuable chiefly for the skin. The word hides is inapplicable to fur skins. Astor v. Ins. Co., 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 202, 214. FUR MANIFESTUS (Lat.). In the Civil Law. A manifest thief. A thief who is taken in the very act of stealing.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

lat. A thief. One who stole secretly or without force or weapons, as opposed to robbsr.

Fur manifestus. In the civil law. A manifest thief. A thief who is taken in the very act of stealing.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

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In civil and old English law. A thief. Fur diurnns: a day thief. Fur nocturnns: a night thief.

In the civil law. Fur mauifestns: a manifest thief; a thief taken in the very act of stealing.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. A thief. Inst. 4. 1. 3. Bract, fol. 105.