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).
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MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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London : printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, Law-Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. For J. Wilkie, at No. 71. St. Paul's Church-Yard; and P. Uriel, in the Inner-Temple Lane, MDCCLXXV. [1775]

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53,[1]p.,tables ; 80.

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The fourth edition.

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ESTC T31786

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