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Animals, Property, and the Law (1995) is a book by Gary Francione, Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. The book was the first extensive jurisprudential treatment of animal rights. [1] [better source needed]
A growing number of state and local bar associations now have animal law committees. [7] The Animal Legal Defense Fund, founded in 1979, was the first organization dedicated to promoting the field of animal law and using the law to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals.
The commodity status of animals is the legal status as property of most non-human animals, particularly farmed animals, working animals and animals in sport, and their use as objects of trade. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ n 1 ] In the United States, free-roaming animals ( ferae naturae ) are (broadly) held in trust by the state; only if captured can ...
Francione's Animals, Property, and the Law (1995) was the first extensive jurisprudential treatment of animal rights. In it, Francione compares the situation of animals to the treatment of slaves in the United States , where legislation existed that appeared to protect them while the courts ignored that the institution of slavery itself ...
Pierson v. Post is generally considered the most famous property law case in American legal history. [1] Although it only involved a dispute over which of two men deserved ownership of a fox, adjudicating the dispute required determining at what point a wild animal becomes "property".
This law creates the crime of "animal enterprise terrorism" for those who damage or cause the loss of property of an animal enterprise. [36] 2002: The AWA is amended to redefine the term "animal" in the law to match the USDA regulations, i.e. to exclude birds, mice, and rats. [11] 2002: Florida becomes the first state to ban gestation crates ...
Animal law organizations (4 P) T. Animal treaties (2 C, 25 P) W. Animal welfare and rights legislation (3 C, 28 P) Wildlife law (4 C, 14 P) Pages in category "Animal law"
Commodity status of animals; Commonhold; Community property; Concurrent estate; Condition precedent; Condition subsequent; Conflict of property laws; Constructive eviction; Constructive possession; Court auction; Covenant (law) Property crime; Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos; Cultural property law; Customary land