Annual Report of the Secretary for Agriculture, Nova Scotia

Portada
Commissioner of Public Works and Mines, King's Printer, 1908
 

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Página 84 - P<-ace and Appeals to General Sessions, in respect to proceedings therein mentioned ; and such aggrieved party shall be entitled so to recover on such action or proceedings, whether the owner or keeper of such dog knew or did not know that it was vicious or accustomed to worry sheep.
Página 83 - ... such justice of the peace may issue his summons directed to such person stating shortly the matter of such complaint and requiring such person to appear before him at a certain time and place therein stated, to answer to such complaint; and...
Página 85 - ... select some mark different from any mark previously recorded, and put the same in a conspicuous place upon each log or stick of timber so put into said river or its branches, and...
Página 83 - Court was analogous statute law reading as follows: "15. (1). The owner of any sheep or lamb killed or injured by any dog shall be entitled to recover the damage occasioned thereby from the owner or keeper of such dog, by an action for damages or by summary proceedings before a Justice of the Peace, on information or complaint before such Justice, who is hereby authorized to hear and determine such complaint. " ' and proceed thereon in the manner provided by The Act respecting Summary Convictions...
Página 84 - Iwfore the court, judge, or justice, the court, judge, or justice may decide and adjudge as to the proportion of the damages which, having regard to the evidence adduced as to the strength, ferocity, and character of the various dogs shown to have been engaged in committing such damage, was probably done by the dogs, the owner or owners of which have been summoned to appear before the court, judge, or justice, and shall determine in respect thereof and apportion the damage which the court, judge,...
Página 83 - In case any person is convicted, on the oath of a credible witness, of owning or having in his possession a dog which has worried and injured or destroyed any sheep, the Justice of the Peace may make an order for the killing of such dog (describing the same according to...
Página 84 - ... dogs whose owners have been summoned, amongst the various owners who have been summoned as aforesaid. (4) The same proceedings shall be thereupon had against any person found by the Judge or Justice to be the owner or keeper of the dog or dogs which by such Court, Judge or Justice shall have been found to have contributed to the damage sustained by the person aggrieved, as if the information or complaint had been laid in the first instance against such person. (5) The Court, Judge or Justice...
Página 85 - ... for each such dog for every forty-eight hours thereafter, until the same is killed, if it is proved to the satisfaction of the justice of the peace before whom proceedings are taken for the recovery of such penalties, that such dog or dogs, has or have worried, or otherwise injured such sheep or lamb; but no such penalties shall be enforced in case it appears to the satisfaction of the justice of the peace, that it was not in the power of the owner or keeper to kill such dog or dogs.
Página 83 - ... and in the evidence) within three days, and in default thereof, may, in his discretion, impose a fine upon such person, not exceeding $20, with costs ; and all penalties imposed under this section shall be applied to the use of the municipality in which the defendant resides.

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