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removed, but not having undergone any chemical change in 

 substance. They were summoned for selling the sharps with- 

 out delivering the invoice required by Section 1 of the Fertilisers 

 and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1906, showing the percentages of oil 

 and albuminoids. It was contended and held by the Court 

 that no such invoice was required as the sharps were, not an 

 article "artificially prepared " within the meaning of the section, 

 or assuming that they were so they were not " artificially pre- 

 pared otherwise than by being mixed, broken, ground or 

 chopped." 



6. Game. In Dickinson v. East (30 Times L.R., 496), the 

 respondents, who were going out ferreting, asked the son of a 

 farmer in the neighbourhood whether, if a rabbit went into his 

 father's field, they might follow it. He replied there was no 

 objection so far as he was concerned, and they availed them- 

 selves of this permission. A summons was issued against them 

 for an alleged trespass on the farmer's land. At the hearing of 

 the summons the farmer attended and said that he would have 

 been prepared to confirm the permission to go upon his land 

 given by his son to the respondents. The summons was 

 dismissed, and on a case stated to the Divisional Court they held 

 it was rightly dismissed, as on a summons under the Poaching 

 Prevention Act, 1862, it is a good defence to prove that the 

 defendant had a hand fide belief that he had permission to go on 

 the land, together with reasonable grounds for that belief. 



7. Land Valuation and Duties. There have been 

 interesting and important decisions on these subjects, affecting 

 agricultural land. In Waiters Kvecnto)'s v. Inland Reveyiue 

 Commissioners (83 L.J.K.B., 1617; 1914, 3 K.B., 196 ., a farm 

 consisting of a farmhouse and about 150 acres of agricultitral 

 land in Lincolnshire almost the whole of which lay below the 

 level of the highest spring tides was protected from the sea by 

 two sea-walls or banks made of rammed earth covered with turf. 

 One of these banks was probably of Roman origin and the other 

 was constructed about 1808. The farm lay seven miles from 

 the neai'est station and twelve from the nearest market town. 

 Upon a valuation under the Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, for 

 the purpose of arriving at the assessable site value, it was held 

 on appeal from the Referee and from Mr. Justice Scrutton that 

 the walls were not " buildings," and if '" structures," were not 

 " structures used in connection with " buildings within Section 

 25, Sub-section 2, of the Act, that they had not been made "by 

 or on behalf of or solely in the interest of any person interested 

 in the land for the purpose of improving the value of the land 

 as building land" within Section 25, Sub-section 4 {h) of the 

 Act, that they had not " actually improved the value of the land 

 as building land" within Section 25, Sub-section 4 (e) of the 



