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Massachusetts Body of Liberties 1641

Massachusetts Colony, Nataniel Ward

Massachusetts Body of Liberties of 1641: Off the Bruite Creatures

[1641 ] Massachusetts Colony [Nathaniel Ward],"Off the Bruite Creatures," Liberty 92 and 93 in The Body of Liberties of 1641 reprinted in A Bibliographical Sketch of the Laws of the Massachusetts Colony from 1630 to 1686, by William H. Whitmore (Boston, 1890; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks.

92 No man shall exercise any Tirranny or Crueltie towards any bruite Creature which are usuallie kept for man's use.

93 If any man shall have occasion to leade or drive Cattel from place to place that is far of, so that they be weary, or hungry, or fall sick, or lambe, It shall be lawful to rest or refresh them, for a competent time, in any open place that is not Corne, meadow, or inclosed for some peculiar use.