Any person taking up estrays may retain possession thereof and use and employ the same in a proper and reasonable manner until claimed or sold according to law, without being liable to the owner thereof, and shall provide such estrays with sufficient wholesome sustenance; and if an animal so taken up die or accidentally get away, the taker up shall not be answerable for the same unless such death or escape be occasioned by ill treatment or neglect. Any person taking up and using an estray under the provisions of this section shall be liable for reasonable hire for the use thereof, to be fixed by the ranger, the same to be set off against the expense of keeping said estray.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals
Chapter 13 - Stock Laws, Estrays
§ 69-13-301. Estrays to be taken up, posted, and ranger notified
§ 69-13-303. Appraisement and description of estrays
§ 69-13-305. Registering and advertising estrays
§ 69-13-307. Estray may be used by taker up
§ 69-13-309. Estray suitable for food slaughtered
§ 69-13-311. Death or escape of estrays reported
§ 69-13-313. Estrays to be sold if not claimed
§ 69-13-315. How owner may prove and reclaim
§ 69-13-317. Time allowed owner to claim and prove property
§ 69-13-319. Owner of estray sold entitled to net proceeds
§ 69-13-321. Ranger may seize estray not delivered according to law
§ 69-13-323. Date and amount of sale noted on register and paid to county treasurer
§ 69-13-325. Ranger's books open to inspection
§ 69-13-327. Ranger to administer oaths
§ 69-13-329. Authority of person other than county ranger as to estrays; fees
§ 69-13-331. Stallion suffered to run at large may be gelded
§ 69-13-333. Not lawful for drover to drive animals from range; penalty