| Show 4 H 1 I 1 1 lilii HI I 1 I 1 i II 11 M IM H 1 I 1 n II 11 HI ha M IM I 1 HI H I when animals were tried by law for offenses W I 1 I 1 I 1 I M ll ill il l it I t I 1 I 1 IM H M ai I 1 I 1 M H II 11 1 I 1 T N 01 DEN time animals were often tried by law for infractions alch constituted thorn a nuisance to society A jewish law laid down in the old testament exodus 21 28 reads if an ox gore a man or a woman that they die then the ox artall be surely stoned and his flesh shall not be eaten but the owner of the ox shall be quit there are oth er similar allusions in the old testa dent in the middle ages from the tenth to the twelfth century there were trials for noxious animals conducted maht all the solemnity of the law an advocate was always assigned to dond he animals As many as 02 such legal cases were tried in the courts of france from 1120 to 1741 domestic animals were tried in the common criminal courts and their punishment ca conviction wis death wild aal als of a noxious type buch as rats locusts caterpillars and the like were led in the ecclesiastical courts in als in the year of 1120 the bishop laon pronounced an injunction against the caterpillars and field mice i account of the ravages they made the crops aln and italy were two other where the lower animals era eld subject to the laws of the wintries wint rles A spanish says at rata when exercised exorcised were ordered 1 apart tor foreign countries the abiding animals would according i down in large bodies to the 1 and set off in tea uan ot desert islands where they could live and enjoy themselves with out annoyance to man it was said that a swallow denied the head of elbert bishop of trevas when he was performing mass at the altar of st peters church at home upon which lie laid a curse upon the whole tribe atiat if any such bird en the church it should immell abely die 1930 western newspaper New paper union |
