The Law of Animals; A Treatise on Property in Animals, Wild and Domestic, and the Rights and Responsibilities Arising Therefrom (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...Friend. 22 Tex. 683. W Stratford Turf Assn. v. Fitch. 28 Out. 579. A steeple-chase for fifty pounds or upwards is a lawful race under the English statutes and evidence was held admissible that across a country, in sporting phraseology, means over all obstructions and prohibits the rider from availing himself of an open gate.312 A coupon competition in a newspaper in which the coupons are to filled up with the names of horses likely to win, --the prize to be given to the lucky guesser, --is not a lottery or betting.81 A list of horses expected to win in a race is not a literary composition which may be copyrighted?4 A newspaper which excludes racing and betting intelligence is not a sporting paper, within the meaning of an agreement framed to protect the copyright of papers specially connected with horse-racing.315 " Reg. 1 . Brown, 1895 1 Q. B. 119. For the meaning of place" used for betting, see Eastwood t, Miller, L. R. 9 Q. B. 440; Bradford 1/. Dawson, 1897 1 Q. B. 307; Hawke 1/. Dunn, Ibid. 579: Mclnaney 1'. Hildredth, Ibid. 600: Liddell 1/. Lofthouse, 1896 i Q. B. 295; Reg. 1/. Leigh, 102 L. T. 136; Doggett 1/. Catterns, 19 C. B. N. S. 765; Powell 1/. Kempton Park Racecourse Co., 1897 2 Q. B. 243, 1899 A. C. 143; Reg. 1/. Humphrey, 1898 1 Q. B. 875; Reg. 1/. Hobbs, 1898 2 Q. B. 647; Kitson 1/. Ashe, 1899 1 Q. B. 425; Brown 1/. Patch, Ibid. 892. See, also, 41 S01. Jour. 616. ' State 1/, Ackerman (N. J.), 41 Atl. Rep. 697. '" Evans 1/. Pratt, 4 Scott N. R. 378. ' Stoddart 1/. Sagar, 1895 2 Q. B. 474. " Chilton 1/. Progress P. & P. Co., 1895 2 Ch. 29. " McFarlane 1/. Hulton, 1899 1 Ch. 884. Where a contract as to a...