(510 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 8, par. 24)
Sec. 1.
All birds and animals ferae naturae or naturally wild, including
fur bearing animals not native to this State, when raised or in
domestication, or kept in enclosures and reduced to possession, are hereby
declared to be objects of ownership and absolute title, the same as cattle
and other property, and shall receive the same protection of law, and in
the same way and to the same extent shall be the subject of trespass or
theft, as other personal property.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2059.)
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