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California Civil Code

§ 656

CIV § 656Div. 2 · Title 1 · Part 1

Statute text

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Animals wild by nature are the subjects of ownership, while living, only when on the land of the person claiming them, or when tamed, or taken and held in possession, or disabled and immediately pursued.

Legislative history

Enacted 1872.

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