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Definition of Estray
1. v. i. To stray.
2. n. Any valuable animal, not wild, found wandering from its owner; a stray.
Definition of Estray
1. Noun. (legal) An animal that has escaped from its owner; a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. An animal cannot be an estray when on the range where it was raised, and permitted by its owner to run. A lost animal whose owner is known to the party at hand is not an estray. ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) Stray. ¹
3. Verb. (archaic) To stray. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Estray
1. to stray [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: stray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estray
Literary usage of Estray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"State, 43 Tex. 101, Quinn p. People, 123 111. 333. So when an animal is not taken
up as an estray, but, having wandered into another's field, ..."
2. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1897)
"TRESPASS lies for working an estray, although the original taking be admitted to
be lawful. Oxley v. Watts. 1 Term Reports 12 (1 RR 133). estray— Working. ..."
3. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1826)
"So, if A. leases his manor, in which an estray was, before the year expired, and
then the year and day expire, the lessee shall have it, and not the lessor ..."
4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"An estray le "an animal of which the owner is unknown." Lyman v. ... "An estray
is a beast wandering or without an owner; one wandering at large, or lost, ..."
5. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"A runaway slave was an " estray " and might under the Miss, law have been ...
Though at common law the definition of an estray was an animal whose owner was ..."
6. The Consolidated Ordinances of the North-West Territories 1898: Being a by Northwest Territories (1899)
"An Ordinance respecting estray Animals. THE Lieutenant Governor by and with the
... The expression "estray" means any animal found on the premises or in the ..."
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