wild-animals

Clift v Kane

possession, wild-animals, abandonment

Hoyles C.J. — # This was an action in trover brought to recover the value of a thousand seals, alleged by the plaintiffs to have been wrongfully taken from the crew of their vessel, the Brothers, at the ice in the spring of 1869, by the defendants, Kane and his crew, and subsequently sold by Kane to the other defendants, Baine, Johnston & Co. The facts of this case, so far as it is necessary to refer to them for the determination of the questions now under consideration, are as follows: ...

Locke's Second Treatise on Government

possession, wild-animals, terra-nullius

Whether we consider natural reason, which tells us, that men, being once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink, and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence: or revelation, which gives us an account of those grants God made of the world to Adam, and to Noah, and his sons, it is very clear, that God, as king David says, Psal. cxv. 16. ...