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2019 California Code
Civil Code - CIV
DIVISION 2 - PROPERTY
PART 1 - PROPERTY IN GENERAL
TITLE 1 - NATURE OF PROPERTY
Section 656.
Universal Citation: CA Civ Code § 656 (2019)
656.
Animals wild by nature are the subjects of ownership, while living, only when on the land of the person claiming them, or when tamed, or taken and held in possession, or disabled and immediately pursued.
(Enacted 1872.)
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