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agreement required Barnes Ranches to know the identity and number
of a partnership's breeding sheep at all times. Further,
although all lambs produced by a partnership's breeding sheep
during the sharecrop agreement's term were to be given to Barnes
Ranches as compensation for its management services, all
"breeding value certificates" on any male lambs born would still
belong to the partnership. Essentially, a breeding value
certificate embodied the rights to the registration papers
obtained on that particular lamb.
C. The Time When the RCR #4 Bill of Sale Document Listing 1,468
Sheep Was Prepared
The above bill of sale for RCR #4 that Barnes Ranches issued
was not a contemporaneous document and was prepared well after
its stated date of February 1, 1984. Among the 1,468 sheep
listed in this "February 1, 1984", bill of sale, are two Suffolk
ewes that are stated therein to have the respective registration
numbers 564033 and 573587. See infra Appendix B, petitioners'
corrected RCR #4 bill of sale, tag no. 377 and tag no. 82-853.
However, each ewe was not registered with the American Suffolk
Sheep Society until at least after early 1986, when the ewe then
would have been assigned the registration number (564033 or
573587) shown in the bill of sale. The evidence of record
includes certain information from American Suffolk Sheep Society
registration certificates issued for (1) the two Suffolks shown
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