Animal trial

In legal history, an animal trial was the criminal trial of a non-human animal. Such trials are recorded as having taken place in Europe from the thirteenth century until the eighteenth. The most documented of these trials being from France, but they also took place in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and other countries. In modern times, it is considered in most criminal justice systems that non-human animals lack moral agency and so cannot be held culpable for an act.

This article is about legal proceedings involving animals. For the use of animals in drug trials and other experiments, see animal testing.
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