At common law, domestic and tame animals and wild animals which are used for food and their young and eggs could be stolen and were the subject of larceny.\u00a0 At common law, dogs and cats were not subject to larceny.\u00a0 However, by the Larceny Acts and later replacement theft legislation, all animals which have a value may be the property of any person and may be the subject of larceny or theft.<\/p>\n
Various statutory offences have been created in relation to interfering with various animals.\u00a0 In addition to legislation dealing with their theft, legislation deals with unlawful killing and maiming of animals.\u00a0 See generally the sections on the welfare and protection of animals and on wildlife.<\/p>\n
The bodies of wild animals which have been killed may be the subject of larceny at common law.\u00a0 However, if the killing and taking were a single act, larceny was not committed at common law.\u00a0 Statutory rules provided that the carcass of a creature wild by nature and not reduced into possession while living was not capable of being stolen by the person who had killed the carcass, provided it remained continuously in his possession.<\/p>\n\n
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Wild v Domestic At common law, animals were divided into two categories.\u00a0 Domestic or tamed animals or wild animals.\u00a0 In this context, animal refers to living creatures generally.\u00a0 Domestic animals include all animals and birds that by training or habit, live with man.\u00a0 This would include farm animals and domestic pets, horses, goats, and sheep. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,268,208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20262,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19376\/revisions\/20262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}