Legal Eagle Question
If you lived next door to a bird raising farm ... and a peacock flew over the fence and laid an egg in your yard ....
Could you legally keep the egg?
Could you legally keep the egg?
posted by Zaux at
11:46 AM
7 Comments:
Peacock's don't lay eggs. . .
Koala ...
are you sure ... I was hoping we could call Ripley :)
Obviously, you are right
They don't usually fly, either!
I am going to go out on a limb here... if it were a peahen or any other egg laying bird, and the peahen was legally proven to be owned by the bird raising farm, then the rights to the egg belong to the legal guardian of the aforementioned peahen.
The difficulty in pursuing a case such as this is the owner of the aforementioned peahen will have to be able to prove that the peahen laid the egg that the neighbour is currently laying claim to.
In cases like this we take a much more laissez faire approach and advise clients not to pursue the case as the cost far exceed the rewards.
In the case of Anderson vs. Wills (1981) the owner of a pair of breeding Macaw Parrots successfully sued his neighbour for keeping an egg that the parrots had laid whilst said neighbour was looking after parrots whilst owner was on holiday.
The egg was propogated and hatched, and all ended well for the parrot and its progeny.
The interesting aside in this case is that the breeding pair were Paradigm and Doris, but had been misidentified as male and female. The male parrot was called Doris.
Neither Doris nor Paradigm have pursued a case for sexual/gender harrassment at this time.
We're all overthinking this, Koala got it right on the money.
peacock dont lay egg....
do u people like spend all day on this website?
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