582 MODERN FARRIER. 



such land he cannot debar the sportsman, if the oc- 

 cupier have no objection to his sporting on it. 



N. B. A trespass is deemed wilful (though no 

 damage may have been done) where the sportsman 

 comes upon ground from which he has been legally 

 noticed to abstain. 



A notice remains in force for the life of the indi- 

 vidual to whom it is given ; with this exception, 

 however, that if the manor change its lord, a second 

 notice from the new lord will be necessary; or, if 

 any of the land change its occupier, a new notice by 

 the new occupier must be given. 



Legal Property. 



The legal property which qualified persons have, 

 generally continues so long on/y as the game remains 

 •within the limits of the manor or liberty of the 

 owner; yet it is held, that if after having been start- 

 ed upon a person's own grounds, it be pursued and 

 killed on those of another, iX will, nevertheless, be 

 the property of him who started it, because the pos- 

 session which he gained by finding it within his 

 oivn liberty is contimied by the immediate pursuit. 

 11 Mod. Rep. 75. But if it be started on another 

 man\s ground, and killed there, it will belong to him 

 on whose ground it was killed, this property arising 

 ratione soli. Lord Raym. 251. 



Moreover, if, having been started on another per- 

 son's ground, it be killed on that of a third person, 

 it will belong neither to him on whose ground it 

 was started, nor to him on whose ground it was killed, 

 but to the person who killed it, though he will be 

 guilty of a trespass on the grounds of both the other 

 persons. 



But if a stranger start game in the chase or free 

 warren of one man, and hunt it into the liberty of 

 another, the property will continue in the owner of 

 the chase or warren, and the keeper may pursue and 



