Game laws - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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The game law or, a collection of the laws and statutes made for the preservation of the game of this kingdom. Drawn into a short and easy method, for the information of all gentlemen, and caution of others.
Great BritainDate: 1714
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Facts, fully established, and submitted to the consideration of every member of both Houses of Parliament, to the Lords of Manors, and to the attention of the people at large, who consider themselves aggrieved by the abuse of power, displayed in the cruelty and oppression of the game laws. In which their inefficacy is clearly demonstrated, their desstructive tendency pointed out, and proposals offered for making game, guns, and dogs, contribute largely to the exigencies of the state, under an act of liberal accommodation, adequate to the wishes of all parties
Date: 1784
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A dialogue between a lawyer and a country gentleman , upon the subject of the game laws, relative to hares, partridges, and pheasants. Wherein is shewn, the several Qualifications to kill Game; the Penalties such Persons are liable to who kill them without such Qualifications; the Manner of recovering such Penalties; the Difference between being subject to the Penalties, and being punished as Trespassers; the Distinction between voluntary and involuntary Trespassers; the necessary Steps to be taken to make wilful Trespassers, and the Consequences of being such; the Difference between Inferior and Superior Tradesmen, and the Consequences of Inferior Tradesmen committing Trespasses; together with some Observations upon these laws. To which are added three tables. Shewing at one View, the Offences,-The Statutes creating them,-the Persons to whom the Penalties are given,-the Manner of Recovery,-The Costs a plaintiff is intitled to,-the Time when the Information or Action ought to be brought; and lastly, the several Penalties a Person may be liable to by one Act. With a letter to John Glynn, Esq; serjeant at law. Upon the Penal Laws of this Country. By a gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn.
Purlewent, S. (Samuel).Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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The gentleman's recreation in four parts. Viz. Hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing. Wherein these generous exercises are largely treated of, and the Terms of Art for Hunting and Hawking more amply enlarged than heretofore. Also the Method of Breeding and Managing a Hunting-Horse: Unto which is now annex'd an Appendix of choice Receipts for the Cure of several Maladies. Whereto is added, a perfect abstract of all the forest-laws, and of every particular Act of Parliament since Magna Charta to this time, as do any way relate to the several kinds of Game above-mention'd. To which is prefix'd, a large sculpture, giving easy directions for blowing the horn. And other Sculptures proper to each Recreation.
Cox, Nicholas, fl. 1673-1731.Date: 1706
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Epitome of the game laws relative to hunting and fowling. Compiled for the use of the Angus and Mearns Game Association
Date: 1800