Blair v. Forehand
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions of tort, the declaration in each of which contained two counts, one in the nature of trover for a dog and dog-collar, and the other of trespass for breaking and entering a close, and there taking and carrying away a dog and dog-collar and shooting the dog.
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Three actions of tort, the declaration in each of which contained two counts, one in the nature of trover for a dog and dog-collar, and the other of trespass for breaking and entering a close, and there taking and carrying away a dog and dog-collar and shooting the dog. The defendant justified upon the ground that the dogs were not registered, numbered, described and licensed according to the St. of 1867, c. 130, and that he was a ^ stable of Grafton, and had received a warrant from the chairman of the selectmen of that town, (which is copied in the margin,*) and duly served and returned the…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
All rights of property are held subject to such reasonable control and regulation of the mode of keeping and use as the legislature, under the police power vested in them by the Constitution of the Commonwealth, may think necessary for the preventing of injuries to the rights of others and the security of the public health and welfare. In the exercise of this power, the legislature may not only provide that certain kinds of property (either absolutely, or when held in such a manner or under such circumstances as to be injurious, dangerous or noxious) may be seized and confiscated upon legal…
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- Putnam v. PayneNew York Supreme Court · 1816
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- John P. Squire & Co. v. TellierMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
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