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Definition of Estrays
1. estray [v] - See also: estray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Estrays
Literary usage of Estrays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rights of Common and Other Prescriptive Rights: Being Twenty-four Lectures by Joshua Williams (1880)
"ANOTHER of those rights, to which, as Lord Coke tells us, a title may be made by
prescription, is the right estrays. to estrays. estrays are thus described ..."
2. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by Henry Stalman, John Scriven (1846)
"estrays (6).—An estray is any beast, not being wild, found wandering within some
lordship or manor without authority (c); and swans or cygnets may be taken ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"Art. 918: " If any person shall, without complying with the laws regulating
estrays, take up and use or otherwise dispose of any animal coming within the ..."
4. A Treatise on Copyholds, Customary Freeholds, Ancient Demesne, and the by John Scriven (1823)
"estrays—An estray is any beast not being wild, found wandering within some lordship
or manor, ... When no one can make title to estrays, called animalia ..."
5. Records of the Town of Newark, New Jersey: From Its Settlement in 1666, to by Newark (N.J.) (1864)
"Jabez Parkhurst, Town Clerk, and Clerk of estrays. John Dodd, Assessor. ...
That the Clerk of estrays have Liberty to publish an account of the estrays, ..."
6. General Laws of California, as Amended Up to the End of the Extra Session of ...by California, Walter Scott Brann, Richard Maury Sims by California, Walter Scott Brann, Richard Maury Sims (1906)
"All other acts and parts of acts relating to estrays now in force are ... This act
and the act of 1897, 198, repealed all prior acta relating to estrays. ..."
7. General Laws of California, as Amended Up to the End of the Session of 1903 by California, Walter Scott Brann (1903)
"estrays. I An act relating to estrays, providing for taking them and giving a
lieu on them for all damages, costs, a expenses incurred by reason of taking ..."
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