ESTRAY, in law, any beast not wild, that is found within a lordship, and owned by nobody: in which case, being cried, according to law, in the two market-towns adjacent, and not claimed in a year and a day by the owner, it becomes the property of the lord of the manor or liberty wherein it was found.
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