Puffendorf (lib. 4, ch. 6, sec. 2 and 10) defines occupancy of beasts feroe
naturoe, to be the actual corporeal possession of them, and Bynkershock is cited
as coinciding in this definition. It is indeed with hesitation that Puffendorf
affirms that a wild beast mortally wounded or greatly [**6] maimed, cannot be
fairly intercepted by another, whilst the pursuit of [*178] the person
inflicting the wound continues. The foregoing authorities are decisive to show
that mere pursuit gave Post no legal right to the fox, but that he became the
property of Pierson, who intercepted and killed him.