BlackletterCalifornia law

Civil Code § 656

TITLE 1. NATURE OF PROPERTY

Current as of September 28, 2026Civ. Code, § 656Official source ↗

Enacted 1872.

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.