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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE |
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POUND .' (1) An enclosure in which cattle or other animals are retained until redeemed by the owners, or when taken in distraint until replevised, such retention being in the nature of a pledge or security to compel satisfaction for debt or damage done. Animals may be seized and impounded when (1) distrained for rent; (2) damage feasant, i.e. doing harm on the land of the person seizing; (3) straying; (4) taken under legal process. A pound belongs to the township or village
By a statute
statute
supply them with sufficient food and water (Cruelty to Animals Acts 1849 and 1854) ; any person, moreover, is authorized to enter a place where animals are impounded without food and water more than twelve hours
supply them; and the cost of such food is to be paid by the owner of the animal before it is removed. A statute of.1690 gives treble damages and costs against persons guilty of pound breach; and by statute of 1843 (Pound Breach) persons releasing or attempting to release cattle impounded or damaging any pound are liable to a fine not exceeding 5, awardable to the person on whose behalf the cattle were distrained, with imprisonment with hard labour in default. In the old law booksi Pound, in sense (I), is represented late
pond
pond
ablative singular as if from pondus (2nd declension)a variant of pondus, ponderis, weight
weight
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