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Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-45: Homicide; owner of dangerous animal.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 97. Crimes
- Chapter 3. Crimes Against the Person
If the owner of a mischievous animal, knowing its propensity, wilfully suffer it to go at large, or shall keep it without ordinary care, and such animal, while so at large, or not confined, kill any human being who shall have taken reasonable precautions to avoid the animal, such owner shall be guilty of manslaughter.
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