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ANIMALS OF A BASE NATURE Definition & Legal Meaning

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Animals in which a right of property may be acquired by reclaiming them from wildness, but which, at common law. by reason of their base nature, are not regarded as possible subjects of a larceny. 3 Inst. 109; 1 Hale, P. C. 511, 512.

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