Livestock - Indian Laws - General

Livestock The Chambers 21st Century Dictionary defines livestock as under: Domesticated animals, especially sheep, cattle, pigs and poultry kept for the production of meat, milk, wool, etc., or for breeding purposes . Black s Agricultural Dictionary , II Edition, defines livestock to mean domesticated animals such as cattle, horses, pigs, poultry, sheep, etc. In Venkataramaiya s Law Lexicon with Legal maxims II Edition refers to the publication titled Legislative Drafting Forms by Six Alison Russel, page 208 livestock is defined as under: (a) Cattle, sheep, goat, swine, horses or poultry and for the purposes of this definition cattle means cows, oxen, calves and poultry means domestic fowls, turkey, goose or ducks. (b) Any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skin, fur or for the purposes of its use in the farming by man. Livestock includes horse, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, mules, donkey and poultry . In Ramanatha Aiyer s Law Lexicon, it is said that livestock is restricted in its meaning so as to include only something which is either a mammal or a bird . In the decision in Peterborough Royal Foxhound Show Society s case 20 Tax Cases 249; 2 K.B. 497, cited with approval by the Supreme Court, it was observed as follows: ......The words livestock are ordinarily and properly used in contrast with dead stock and include all live animals and birds the breeding of which is regulated by man. In the Words and Phrases Legally Defined , by Saundes livestock is defined as Cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, or poultry and for the purposes of this definition cattle means bulls, cows, oxen, heifers or calves, horses includes asses and mules, and poultry means domestic fowls, turkeys, geese or ducks . In Wardhough (A.F.) Ltd. v. Mace (1952) 2 All ER 28, Lord Goddard defined livestock as under: Livestock generally means live animals. If the live and dead stock on a farm are advertised for sale, everybody knows what that means. The dead stock are implements; the livestock are the animals on the farm and I should think that in the great majority of cases at any rate it would include and would be thought to include the poultry on the farm . STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH VERSUS BHAGYA LAKSHMI HATCHERIES PVT. LIMITED (AND OTHER CASES) - 2000 (10) TMI 943 - ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT