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persons of higher degree. Esquires, according to 

 law, are the four esquires of the king's body ; the 

 younger sons of noblemen and their male heirs for 

 ever; the eldest sons of baronets, knights of the 

 Bath, and knights bachelors, and their heirs male 

 in the right line. Persons of higher degree than 

 esquires, are doctors in the three learned professions, 

 Serjeants at law, and colonels. It has been asserted, 

 that subaltern officers, whose names appear in their 

 commissions, with an esquire attached to them, are 

 therefore esquires strictly speaking ; though they 

 appear to be esquires by courtesy only, not in the 

 legal sense of the word. A justice is an esquire as 

 long only as he contiiuies in the commission of the 

 peace. Neither esquires, however, nor any of these 

 persons of higher degree, are qualified to kill game, 

 unless they have the requisite property, whilst their 

 eldest sons are qualified, though possessing no estate 

 whatever ! 1 Term Rep. 44. 



A vicar, in respect of his church, has not an estate 

 of inheritance in the eye of the law, but onty for his 

 life ; and, therefore, must possess one hundred and 

 fifty pounds per annum. Caldecofs Cases, 188. 



The owners and keepers of forests, parks, chases, 

 or warrens, being stocked with deer or conies for 

 their necessary use, are qualified without the re- 

 quisite estate, merely as far as relates to their forests, 

 parks, he. 



The lord of any manor, or royalty, is qualified in 

 a legal sense, though his property may be insufficient 

 for that purpose. In the same way a game-keeper 

 may be said to be qualified, as he has a legal right 

 to shoot on the manor for which he is deputed. 



Goods distrained for penalties under the game 

 laws are not repleviable. 



Any justice of the peace, or lord or lady of a manor, 

 may take away any hare, or other game, as well as 

 any dogs, found in the possession of an unqualified 

 person. 



