TITLE IV. 

 LIABILITIES OF OWNERS OF ANIMALS. 



CHAPTER II. 



IMPOUNDING. INJURIES ON HIGHWAYS. DISEASED ANI- 

 MALS. NUISANCES. RACING. 



8i. Nature of a pound. 87. Damage done in highways by 



82. The right to impound. passing animals. 



83. Manner of impounding; reme- 88. Diseased animals; sale. 



dies of the owner. 89. Diseased animals; transporta- 



84. Damages; sale. tion and liability in general. 



85. Horses left unguarded in the go. Nuisances; diseased and dead 



highway. animals. 



86. Liability in case of horses run- 91. Racing and betting. 



ning away. 



81. Nature of a Pound. — The subject of impounding is one 

 that is largely regulated by statute. There are some general 

 principles, however, that it may be well to consider here. 



Where animals are found trespassing or running at large 

 in violation of law, they may be captured and driven to a 

 pound. A town pound, ex vi termini, is an enclosed piece of 

 land secured by a firm structure of stone or of posts and tim- 

 ber, placed in the ground; and by the grant or exception in 

 a deed of a town pound, the land on which it stands is con- 

 veyed or excepted, not as an appurtenance but as parcel of 

 the subject-matter.^ A shed on another lot used as the en- 

 trance to a pound is a part of it.^ A pound-keeper may use 



' Wooley V. Groton, 2 Cush. (Mass.) 305. 

 ' Wilcox V. Hemming, 58 Wis. 144. 

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