What is ANIMALS OF A BASE NATURE? Definition of ANIMALS OF A BASE NATURE in Black's Law Dictionary
Animals in which a right of property may be acquired by reclaiming them from wildness, but which, at common law, by reason of their base nature, are not regarded as possible subjects of a larceny. 3 Inst. 109; 1 Hale, P.C. 511, 512.
Some animals which are now usually tamed come within this class, as dogs and cats; and others which, though wild by nature and often reclaimed by art and industry, clearly fall within the same rule, as bears, foxes, apes, monkeys, ferrets, and the like; 1 Hawk.Pl.Cr. 33, § 36; 4 Bla.Com. 236; 2 East, Pl.Cr. 614. See 1 Wms.Saund. 84, note 2.
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