A Handy Book of the Game and Fishery Laws: All the Acts in Force as to Game, Rabbits, Deer, Private and Salmon Fisheries, Dogs, Birds, Etc., and the New Licenses to Kill Game, Deer, Etc., Systematically Arranged, with Useful Forms, Notes, Decisions, Etc
A Handy Book of the Game and Fishery Laws: All the Acts in Force as to Game, Rabbits, Deer, Private and Salmon Fisheries, Dogs, Birds, Etc., and the New Licenses to Kill Game, Deer, Etc., Systematically Arranged, with Useful Forms, Notes, Decisions, Etc.,
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...game into these nets, without themselves entering on the land. 9 Geo. 4, c. 69, sect. 9 enacts, --" That if any 9 Geo. 4, persons, to the number of three or more together, Person8to shall by night unlawfully enter or be in any land, ofet"TMber whether open or inclosed, for the purpose of taking being armed, . entering ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...game into these nets, without themselves entering on the land. 9 Geo. 4, c. 69, sect. 9 enacts, --" That if any 9 Geo. 4, persons, to the number of three or more together, Person8to shall by night unlawfully enter or be in any land, ofet"TMber whether open or inclosed, for the purpose of taking being armed, . entering any or destroying game or rabbits, any of such persons land for the being armed with any gun, crossbow, fire-arms, blud-taking or geon or any other offensive weapon, each and every gamey&cB, of such persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,13--Slide-0' u The offenders under this section are also offenders under the first section, and may be apprehended under the authority of s. 2, p. 112 (R. v. Ball, 1 Mood. C. C. 330); and, indeed, the 14 & 15 Vict. c. 19, s. 11, which gives any person the right to apprehend persons committing indictable offences in the night applies to persons night poaching, although the night is defined to begin and end at different times in the 9 Geo. 4, c. 69 and 11 & 15 Vict. c. 19 (Reg. v. Sanderson, 1 F. & F. 598, per Willes, J.) Vide the notes, to s. 1, p. 110. The 7 & 8 Vict. c. 29, supra, as to being on public roads by night is not applicable to this offence; but, possibly where the soil of the road belongs to the owner of the adjoining land, any act of the offender showing his purpose to be within this section (9th), would be held to be an entry on the land, as it was held to be under similar circumstances in a case of trespass (Reg. v. Pratt, ante, p. 60, n.). The intent or purpose for which the defendants were on the land (or it seems, supra, on a road also in certain cases) is proved by circumstances from which a jury may infer it, as that the land was a preserve for game, or that th...
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