{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:996","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Animals","number":"996","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/996/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK IV - PROPERTY","title":"TITLE I - KINDS OF PROPERTY AND ITS APPROPRIATION","chapter":"Chapter 2. - De Facto Relationships Concerning Property","section":"Section 2. - Vacant Property","paragraph":"Paragraph 1. - Things Without an Owner"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"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.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/996/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":271,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/271/?article=996&paragraph=p1#article-996-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"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.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/996/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":271,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/271/?article=996&paragraph=p2#article-996-p2"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}