TITLE I. 

 PROPERTY IN ANIMALS. 



CHAPTER II. 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



Part. I. Domestic animals and 19. Taxation of domestic animals, 

 their increase. Branding. Part III. Property in dogs. 



16. Nature of this property. 20. The dog as the subject of a 



17. The increase of animals. civil action. 



18. Brands as evidence of owner- 21. The dog as the subject of lar- 



ship. ceny; dogs as a source of evi- 



Part II. Taxation of domestic dence in criminal actions, 



animals. 22. Taxation and license. 



PART I. DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND THEIR INCREASE. 

 BRANDING. 



16. Nature of this Property — It is not necessary to define 

 here what is meant by "domestic animals" or "animals domitce 

 natures" further than to repeat the words of Blackstone al- 

 ready quoted that they are "such animals as we generally see 

 tame and are therefore seldom, if ever, found wandering at 

 large." ^ The meaning of the expression as used in statutes 

 punishing cruelty will be treated hereafter.^ 



The right of property in these animals is absolute, and, ex- 

 cept in the case of the dog, the distinction noted in the last 

 chapter between animals that are and are not the sub- 

 jects of larceny does not here exist. "Of all valuable domes- 



' See § I, supra. ' See § 121, infra. 

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