Civil Code · English · 2015
Article 996
Animals
(1)
Tamed or captived animals shall become things without a master where they escape from the control of their owner and he does not attempt to recapture them within the following month or he ceases for one month to attempt to recapture them.
#(2)
The provision of sub-Article (1) shall not apply to animals of the equine or asinine species or cross-breeding thereof nor to camels and animals of the bovine, possine and caprine species, poultry and pigs.
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