 | 1809 - 596 pàgines
....master himself, lie tells you that the animal is his own.' p. 12. ' The validity,' says his Lordship, ' of this most infamous and stupid defence, arises from...Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or abuse them from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is... | |
 | Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pàgines
...asks, are you my master ? and if he be the master himself, he tells you that the animal is his own. The validity of this most infamous and stupid defence,...defect in the law which I seek to remedy, Animals are considttred as property only. To destroy or abase them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention... | |
 | David Mushet - 1839 - 358 pàgines
...disgusting outrages are most frequently perpetrated by the base and worthless ; incapable, as they are for the most part of any reproof which can reach the...is criminal: but the animals themselves are without protection—the law regards them not substantively —they have no rights ! I will not stop to examine... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 744 pàgines
...' if you are his master ? ' — and if he be a master, he tells you that ' the animal is his own.' The validity of this most infamous and stupid defence...are without protection — the law regards them not — they have no RIGHTS. I am to ask your Lordships, in the name of that God who gave to man his dominion... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 734 pàgines
...' if you are his master ? ' — and if he be a master, he tells you that ' the animal is his own.' The validity of this most infamous and stupid defence...from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurioxis to his interest in them, is criminal — but the animals themselves are without protection... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 pàgines
...asks c if you are Ms master ?' — and if he be a master, he tells you that l the animal is his own/ The validity of this most infamous and stupid defence...are without protection — the law regards them not — they have no RIGHTS. I am to ask your Lordships, in the name of that God who gave to man his dominion... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 626 pàgines
...the master himself, he tells you that the animal is his own." "The validity," says his Lordship, " of this most infamous and stupid defence, arises from...Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or abuse them from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 624 pàgines
...the master himself, he tells you that the animal is his own." "The validity," says his Lordship, " of this most infamous and stupid defence, arises from...Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or abuse them from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is... | |
 | Frederick Charles Moncreiff - 1882 - 204 pàgines
...What is that to you?' If the offender be a servant, he curses you, and asks 'if you are his master? The validity of this most infamous and stupid defence...to remedy. Animals are considered as property only; they are without protection—the law regards them not—they have no riyhts. . . . As to the tendency... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1902 - 512 pàgines
...Lord Erskine, in his speech on May 15, stated the position of animals before the law as follows : ' Animals are considered as property only : to destroy...regards them not substantively ; they have no rights.' He considered, however, that public cruelty to animals was, under many circumstances, an indictable... | |
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The validity of this most infamous and stupid defence, arises from that defect in the law which I seek to remedy. Animals are considered as property only— to destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to... 
