Research Catalog

Title

Animals and their legal rights; a survey of American laws from 1641 to 1968. With additional chapters by the Animal Health Division of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Lewis Sharpley [and others.

Author

Leavitt, Emily Stewart.

Publication

New York] Animal Welfare Institute, 1968.

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Additional Authors

Animal Welfare Institute

Description

165, xlix p.; 22 cm.

Subject

Animal welfare > Law and legislation > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. xlvii-xlix.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Evolution of Anti-Cruelty Laws in the United States -- First Federal Law to Prevent Cruelty to Animals -- Humane Slaughter Laws -- Laboratory Animal Welfare -- Cruelty on the High Seas, Importation of Wild Animals and Birds -- Dogs -- Cats -- Horses -- Laws Regulating the Sale of Small Animals and Birds -- Fighting and BAiting -- Trapping -- Humane Education in the Public Schools -- Organizations for the Protection of Animals, and Law Enforcement Agencies -- Marine Mammals -- Appendic: State Laws Regulating Transportation of Livestock. Federal Humane Slaughter Act. Foreign Anti-Cruelty Laws and Hyumane Slaughter Laws. Foreign Laboratory Animal Welfare Laws. British Cruelty to Animals Act, 1876. French Decree Regulating Experiments o Animals, 1968. Laws on Dog Stealing. Hit and Rin Drivers. Keeping Live Birds to be Shot At. Easter Chick Laws, Ordinances. Massachusetts SPCA Rules Governing Horse and Ox Pulling Contests. Animal Health Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Field Stations and Veterinarians in Charge. State Law Libraries. Annotated Statutes of the States. Schweitzer Medallists.

LCCN

^^^68008989^//r90

OCLC

• 1444295
• SCSB-9938256

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