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§ 4:20-28 — Injuring animals trespassing for want of sufficient fence

New Jersey·Title 4 AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS
An owner or possessor of land who is damaged for want of a lawful and sufficient fence and who shall hurt or cause any horses, cattle or sheep to be hurt, wounded, lamed, killed or destroyed, shall be liable to pay full damages to the owner of such animals, to be recovered, with costs, in an action at law in any court of competent jurisdiction.

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§ 4:20-1
Sufficiency of fences in general
§ 4:20-10
Specification of time for making partition fence
§ 4:20-11
Placing partition fence where parties disagree
§ 4:20-12
Placing and apportioning partition fence when line is private road or watercourse
§ 4:20-13
Placing and apportioning partition fence when line is township boundary
§ 4:20-14
Failure of members of township committee to agree
§ 4:20-15
Failure of member of township committee to act; penalty
§ 4:20-16
Fees of township committee members
§ 4:20-17
Notice as prerequisite to removal of partition fence
§ 4:20-18
Agreements respecting partition fences
§ 4:20-19
Registration of agreements and certificates; fee
§ 4:20-2
Sufficiency of partition fences
§ 4:20-21
Failure of clerk to register; penalty
§ 4:20-22
Damages by animals breaking through lawful fences
§ 4:20-23
Impounding and sale of such animals
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