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1st day Act passed Administrative County aforesaid apply authorised Bearded tit bird of game bustard charged close season committed conviction court damage deal in game deer defendant defendant's enacted entitled exceeding forest forfeit and pay Game Amendment game certificate game eggs game farmer Game Laws game or rabbits gamekeeper Ground Game Act hamper hares intituled An Act justices keeper kill and take kill game killing or taking killing the game land landlord landrails larceny Lesser whitethroat liable license to kill licensed to deal lord lordship nest nets Night Poaching Act Norfolk obtained occupier offence owner partridges penalty person pheasants poachers police possession prosecution Provided pursuit of game rabbits right of killing royalty Ryston Hall shooting shot snipe sporting rights Suffolk SUMMARY OFFENCES take ground game taking game taking or destroying tenant thereof tion trap trespass in pursuit unlawful unlawfully warren West Suffolk wild bird woodcock
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Page 218 - Act be given to any gamekeeper of a manor ; and no person so appointed gamekeeper and empowered to kill game for his own use or for the use of any other person...
Page 245 - Act, the enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule...
Page 234 - Act, the Defendant or Defendants in such Action or Suit may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the Authority of this Act...
Page 233 - Justice before whom the same shall be entered into, shall liberate such person, if in custody, and the Court at such Sessions, shall hear and determine the matter of the appeal...
Page 234 - And for the protection of persons acting in the execution of this Act, be it enacted, That all actions and prosecutions to be commenced against any person for anything done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid and tried in the county where the fact was committed, and shall be commenced within six calendar months after the fact committed, and not otherwise ; and notice in writing of such action...
Page 209 - Game,' by enlarging the time within which Suits and Actions are to be brought by force of the said Act ; " and an Act passed in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled, " An Act to explain and amend a clause in an Act made in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, ' An Act for the better Preservation of the Game...
Page 234 - Plaintiff shall become nonsuit, or discontinue any such Action after Issue joined, or if, upon Demurrer or otherwise, Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff, the Defendant shall recover his full Costs as between Attorney...
Page 213 - Ireland, to be taken out by every person who shall use any dog, gun, net or other engine for the purpose of taking or killing any game whatever, or any woodcock, snipe, quail or landrail, or any conies, or any deer...
Page 234 - Majesty's superior courts of record ; and no warrant of commitment shall be held void by reason of any defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid conviction to sustain the same.
Page 230 - Act, together with costs, may adjudge that such person shall pay the same either immediately or within such period as the said Justice or Justices shall think fit, and that in default of payment at the time appointed such person shall be imprisoned in the common...