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 Lincolns-Inn, a freeholder of Middlesex

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Purlewent, Samuel
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London printed for J. Wilkie , at No. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard ; and P. Uriel, in the Inner-Temple Lane 1771, MDCCLXXI. [1771]
Edition:	[The third edition]
Subjects:	Game Laws / Great Britain
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1259000500?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa