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1752 3 Feb. in Votes & Proc. of House of Representatives of Province of Pennsylvania (1774) 205 The petitioners..pray, that the Pound-Law may be revived, and proper Officers..be appointed to cause such pounds to be erected.

1874 Oakland (Calif.) Daily Evening Tribune 3 July Fault is found with the size of the brass tag officially designated for dogs, under the local pound law.

1959 W. Faulkner Mansion 331 All you got to do is jest ketch it [sc. the hog] and shut it up in your kitchen or bedroom..and the pound law will make me pay you a dollar for it.

1998 H. D. Guither Animal Rights iv. 38 The group has worked for repeal of pound laws in Massachusetts and conducted a town-by-town campaign to repeal pound law ordinances in local communities.