law: Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960
  2. Definitions. -
  In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires, -
  (a)"animal'' means any living creature
  
  other than a human being;
  (b)"Board'' means the Animal Welfare
  
  Board established under section 4;
  (c)"captive animal'' means any animal
  
  (not being a domestic animal) which is in captivity or confinement, whether
  
  permanent or temporary, or which is subjected to any appliance or contrivance
  
  for the purpose of hindering or preventing its escape from captivity or
  
  confinement or which is pinioned or which is or appears to be maimed;
  (d)"domestic animal'' means any animal
  
  which is tamed or which has been or is being sufficiently tamed to serve some
  
  purpose for the use of man or which, although it neither has been nor is being
  
  nor is intended to be so tamed, is or his become in fact wholly or partly
  
  tamed;
  (e)"local authority'' means a municipal
  
  committee, district board or other authority for the time being invested by law
  
  with the control and administration of any matters within a specified local
  
  area;
  (f)"owner'', used with reference to an
  
  animal, includes not only the owner but also any other person for the time
  
  being in possession or custody of the animal, whether with or without the
  
  consent of the owner;
  (g)"phooka'' or "doom dev'' includes
  
  any process of introducing air or any substance into the female organ of a
  
  milch animal with the object of drawing off from the animal any secretion of
  
  milk;
  (h)"prescribed'' means prescribed by
  
  rules made unless this act;
  (i)"street'' includes any way, road,
  
  lane, square, court, alley, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare or
  
  not, to which the public have access.