Bava Kamma 54 - All Animals are Equal in Front of the Law (Torts)
The same law that applies to an ox also applies to any domestic animal regarding the following:
Payment of damages for its falling into a pit
,
forceful separation from Mount Sinai at the Giving of the Torah
,
the twofold payment a thief must make for stealing an animal
,
returning a lost object
,
unloading an animal
,
prohibition of muzzling an animal when it is threshing
,
prohibition of
mating
or
plowing with diverse species
together,
prohibition of having one's animal work on Sabbath
.
Moreover, any wild beast or bird is legally the same.
Why is an ox or donkey explicitly mentioned? Because Scripture speaks of the usual case.
Art:
Donkeys, horse and pigs by a barn in a farmyard by
James Ward
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