It shall not be lawful for a drover or other person to drive any horse, mule, cattle, hog, or sheep of another from the lands to which the same may belong, whether the same be an estray or not; but it shall be his duty, if any other such stock shall join his, immediately to halt at the nearest convenient place and separate such stock as does not belong to him or to the person for whom he may be employed; and if any person shall violate the provisions of this section, he shall forfeit twenty dollars for every offense, with costs, recoverable before a justice of the peace, by and for the use of any person who will sue for the same, and shall also be liable in damages to the party injured; and when any person employed in driving stock shall violate the provisions of this section, he and his employer shall be liable to the like penalties; but the recovery of such penalty shall not be a bar to indictment for larceny.
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