Animal
An´i`mal
ANIMAL, property. A name given to every animated being endowed with the
power of voluntary motion. In law, it signifies all animals except those of
the him, in species.
2. Animals are distinguished into such as are domitae, and such as are
ferae naturae.
3. It is laid down, that in tame or domestic animals, such as horse,
swine, sheep, poultry, and the like, a man may have an absolute property,
because they continue perpetually in his possession and occupation, and will
not stray from his house and person unless by accident or fraudulent
enticement, in either of which cases the owner does not lose his property. 2
Bl. Com. 390; 2 Mod. 319. 1.
4. But in animals ferae naturae, a man can have no absolute property;
they belong to him only while they continue in his keeping or actual
possession; for if at any they regain their natural liberty, his property
instantly ceases, unless they have animum revertendi, which is only to be
known by their usual habit of returning. 2 Bl. Com. 396; 3 Binn. 546; Bro.
Ab. Propertie, 37; Com. Dig. Biens, F; 7 Co. 17 b; 1 Ch. Pr. 87; Inst. 2, 1,
15. See also 3 Caines' Rep. 175; Coop. Justin. 457, 458; 7 Johns. Rep. 16;
Bro. Ab. Detinue, 44.
5. The owner of a mischievous animal, known to him to be so, is
responsible, when he permits him to go at large, for the damages he may do.
2 Esp. Cas. 482; 4 Campb. 198; 1 Starkie's Cas. 285; 1 Holt, 617; 2
Str.1264; Lord Raym. 110; B. N. P. 77; 1 B. & A. 620; 2 C. M.& R. 496; 5 C.&
P. 1; S. C. 24 E. C. L. R. 187. This principle agrees with the civil law.
Domat, Lois Civ. liv. 2, t. 8, s. 2. And any person may justify the killing
of such ferocious animals. 9 Johns. 233; 10. Johns. 365; 13 Johns. 312. The
owner, of such an animal may be indicted for a common nuisance. 1 Russ. Ch.
Cr. Law, 643; Burn's Just., Nuisance, 1.
6. In Louisiana, the owner of an animal is answerable for the damage he
may cause; but if the animal be lost, or has strayed more than a day, he may
discharge himself from this responsibility, by abandoning him to the person
who has sustained the injury; except where the master turns loose a
dangerous or noxious animal; for then he must pay all the harm done, without
being allowed to make the abandonment. Civ. Code, art. 2301. See Bouv. Inst.
Index, h.t.
Adamic,
Angora goat,
Arctic fox,
Belgian hare,
Caffre cat,
Circean,
Draconian,
Goth,
Gothic,
Indian buffalo,
Kodiak bear,
Neanderthal,
Tartarean,
Virginia deer,
aardvark,
aardwolf,
alpaca,
ammonite,
animalian,
animalic,
animalistic,
ankylosaur,
anteater,
antelope,
antelope chipmunk,
anthropophagite,
anthropophagous,
aoudad,
apar,
aphrodisiomaniacal,
archaeohippus,
archaeotherium,
archelon,
armadillo,
arthrodiran,
ass,
atrocious,
aurochs,
badger,
bandicoot,
barbarian,
barbaric,
barbarous,
bassarisk,
bat,
bawdy,
bear,
beastlike,
beastly,
beaver,
being,
bestial,
bettong,
binturong,
bison,
black bear,
black buck,
black cat,
black fox,
black sheep,
bloodthirsty,
bloody,
bloody-minded,
blue fox,
bobcat,
bodily,
bothriolepis,
brachiosaur,
brontops,
brontothere,
brown bear,
brush deer,
brush wolf,
brutal,
brutalized,
brute,
brutelike,
brutish,
buffalo,
buffalo wolf,
burro,
burro deer,
cachalot,
camel,
camelopard,
cannibal,
cannibalistic,
capybara,
carabao,
caribou,
carnal,
carpincho,
cat,
cat-a-mountain,
catamount,
cattalo,
cavy,
chamois,
cheetah,
chevrotain,
chinchilla,
chipmunk,
cinnamon bear,
clitoromaniacal,
coarse,
coccostean,
coelodont,
compsognathus,
concupiscent,
coon,
coon cat,
coryphodon,
cotton mouse,
cotton rat,
cotylosaur,
cougar,
cow,
coyote,
coypu,
creature,
creeping thing,
creodont,
critter,
crossopterygian,
crude,
cruel,
cruel-hearted,
cur,
cynodictis,
deer,
deer tiger,
demoniac,
demoniacal,
destroyer,
devilish,
diabolic,
diatryma,
dimetrodon,
dingo,
dinichthyid,
dinothere,
diplodocus,
dirty,
dog,
donkey,
dormouse,
dromedary,
duck-billed dinosaur,
dumb,
dumb animal,
dumb friend,
earthy,
echidna,
edaphosaurid,
eland,
elasmosaur,
elephant,
elk,
ermine,
erotic,
eroticomaniacal,
erotomaniacal,
eryopsid,
eurypterid,
eyra,
fallen,
fallow deer,
fell,
feral,
ferine,
ferocious,
ferret,
field mouse,
fiendish,
fiendlike,
fierce,
fisher,
fitch,
fleshly,
flying phalanger,
foumart,
fox,
fox squirrel,
gazelle,
gemsbok,
genet,
giant sloth,
giraffe,
glutton,
glyptodont,
gnu,
gnu goat,
goat,
goat antelope,
goatish,
gopher,
grizzly bear,
gross,
ground squirrel,
groundhog,
guanaco,
guinea pig,
gynecomaniacal,
hadrosaur,
hamster,
hare,
harnessed antelope,
hartebeest,
hedgehog,
hellish,
hippopotamus,
hog,
horny,
horse,
hot,
hound,
hyena,
hyrax,
hysteromaniacal,
ibex,
ill-bred,
impolite,
infernal,
inhuman,
inhumane,
insect,
instinctive,
instinctual,
ithyphallic,
jackal,
jackass,
jackrabbit,
jaguar,
jaguarundi,
jerboa,
jerboa kangaroo,
kaama,
kangaroo,
kangaroo mouse,
kangaroo rat,
karakul,
kinkajou,
kit fox,
koala,
lapin,
lapsed,
lascivious,
lecherous,
lemming,
leopard,
leopard cat,
lewd,
libidinous,
lickerish,
lion,
living being,
living thing,
llama,
lubricious,
lustful,
lynx,
mammal,
mammoth,
man-eater,
mara,
marmot,
marten,
mastodon,
material,
materialistic,
meerkat,
mindless,
mink,
mole,
mongoose,
mongrel,
monster,
moose,
mouflon,
mountain goat,
mountain lion,
mountain sheep,
mouse,
mule,
mule deer,
muntjac,
murderous,
musk deer,
musk hog,
musk-ox,
muskrat,
musquash,
nihilist,
nilgai,
noncivilized,
nonrational,
nonspiritual,
nutria,
nymphomaniacal,
obscene,
ocelot,
okapi,
onager,
oont,
opossum,
organism,
orgiastic,
otter,
ounce,
outlandish,
ox,
pack rat,
painter,
palaeodictyopteron,
palaeoniscid,
palaeophis,
palaeosaur,
palaeospondylus,
panda,
pangolin,
panther,
peccary,
peludo,
pelycosaur,
phalanger,
physical,
phytosaur,
pig,
pine mouse,
platypus,
plesiosaur,
pocket gopher,
pocket mouse,
pocket rat,
polar bear,
polar fox,
polecat,
porcupine,
possum,
postlapsarian,
pouched rat,
poyou,
prairie dog,
prairie wolf,
priapic,
primitive,
pronghorn,
protoceratops,
protylopus,
prurient,
pteranodon,
pteraspid,
pterichthys,
pterodactyl,
pterosaur,
puma,
rabbit,
raccoon,
randy,
rat,
red deer,
red squirrel,
reindeer,
reptile,
rhinoceros,
roe,
roe deer,
roebuck,
rough-and-ready,
rude,
ruthless,
sable,
sadistic,
salacious,
sanguinary,
sanguineous,
satanic,
satyric,
sauropod,
savage,
scelidosaur,
sensual,
serpent,
serval,
sexual,
sexy,
shark,
sharkish,
sheep,
shrew,
shrew mole,
sika,
silver fox,
skunk,
slavering,
sloth,
smilodon,
snake,
snowshoe rabbit,
springbok,
squirrel,
stoat,
subhuman,
suslik,
swamp rabbit,
swine,
swinish,
takin,
tamandua,
tamarin,
tapir,
tarpan,
tatou,
tatou peba,
tatouay,
tiger,
tiger cat,
timber wolf,
titanosaur,
trachodon,
tree shrew,
triceratops,
trilobite,
troglodyte,
troglodytic,
truculent,
tyrannosaur,
uintathere,
unchristian,
uncivil,
uncivilized,
uncombed,
uncouth,
uncultivated,
uncultured,
unhuman,
unkempt,
unlicked,
unpolished,
unrefined,
unspiritual,
untamed,
urus,
vandal,
varmint,
vermin,
vicious,
viper,
vole,
wallaby,
warthog,
water buffalo,
waterbuck,
weasel,
wharf rat,
whelp,
whistler,
white fox,
wild,
wild ass,
wild boar,
wild goat,
wild man,
wild ox,
wildcat,
wildebeest,
wolf,
wolfish,
wolverine,
wombat,
wood rat,
woodchuck,
woolly mammoth,
worm,
wrecker,
yak,
zebra,
zebu,
zoic,
zooid,
zooidal,
zoologic,
zoological,
zoril