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Sutcliffe v Holmes

Subject Matter

ANIMAL — Animals — Trespass — Sheep straying from common land on to land not adjoining it — Failure to fence the adjoining land — Whether duty to fence land not adjoining the common land — Liability of owners of sheep.

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