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, and Representative of the County of Middlesex, Upon the Penal Laws of this Country. By a gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn, a freeholder of Middlesex
- Purlewent, S. (Samuel).
- Date:
- MDCCLXXI. [1771]
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London : printed for J. Wilkie , at No. 71. St. Paul's Church-Yard ; and P. Uriel, in the Inner-Temple Lane, MDCCLXXI. [1771]
Physical description
54,[2]p.,tables ; 80.
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Edition
[The second edition].
References note
ESTC N6508