What is the difference between a person's responsibility for a ferae naturae and a domestic animal?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Diversified Holdings Ltd. v. British Columbia, 1982 CanLII 539 (BC SC):
The case of Brady v. Warren, [1900] 2 I.R. 632, illustrates the distinction drawn by the courts with regard to one's responsibility for animals ferae naturae and for domestic animals, depending on the extent to which one attains a property right in the creatures by taming, possessing or otherwise exercising control over them.
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