"The word animal is very comprehensive, and in the broadest sense of the word, an animal is any animate being endowed with the power of voluntary motion.
"In its common acceptation, the word animal includes all irrational beings. The term is less extensive as used in jurisprudence than in natural science, and in its legal sense does not include mankind. In the language of the law the term ordinarily includes all living creatures not human or rational, and endowed with the power of voluntary or self-motion, unless the statute or other context in which the word is employed indicates that it should be given another or more restricted meaning....
"Animals viewed in broad sense is used in contradistinction to a human being, and signifies an inferior living creature generally having the power of self-motion."
"In its common acceptation, the word animal includes all irrational beings. The term is less extensive as used in jurisprudence than in natural science, and in its legal sense does not include mankind. In the language of the law the term ordinarily includes all living creatures not human or rational, and endowed with the power of voluntary or self-motion, unless the statute or other context in which the word is employed indicates that it should be given another or more restricted meaning....
"Animals viewed in broad sense is used in contradistinction to a human being, and signifies an inferior living creature generally having the power of self-motion."
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