68 DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



or development in the common consensus of mankind as to 

 the value of certain kinds of property, formerly little es- 

 teemed, and that dogs, bonds, etc., would now be considered 

 the subjects of larceny apart from any statute — although this 

 view seems a thoroughly rational one, the question would 

 hardly arise, as there are larceny statutes in all of the States 

 and the general tendency certainly is to include under the 

 general terms of these statutes such as "property," "goods," 

 "chattels," "things of value," all those kinds of property that 

 were formerly, for technical reasons, held not to be embraced 

 by them. The value of the dog is too well known at the 

 present day to be made a subject of dispute either in courts 

 or in legislative assemblies, and as to the older law we can 

 only repeat what was said in Mullaly v. Peo., supra, that "the 

 artificial reasonings upon which these rules were based are 

 wholly inapplicable to modern society." 



