THE LAW AS TO SALMON-FISHING 227 



The rights of salmon-fishing which the Crown has 

 granted away to individuals are separate heritable 

 estates, distinct from the ownership of the adjoining- 

 lands, and vested in individuals by express grant in 

 terms of ' salmon-fishing ' (cum piscatione salmon um) — 

 although, if the words cum piscatione alone are found 

 in the grant, a long practice and enjoyment of salmon- 

 fishing may extend them to imply a grant of ' salmon ' 

 fishing. The view once held, that a right to ' angle ' 

 for salmon accompanied the ownership of the soil in 

 Scotland, despite a grant of salmon-fishing to another, 

 has, since the case of Anderson v. Anderson, decided 

 ill 1867, perhaps unfortunately been rejected, and so 

 it happens that while one individual owns the adjoin- 

 ing lands, another sometimes has the right of fishing 

 in the river. 



LEGISLATION 



The Salmon Fishery Acts 



From very early times salmon have been protected 

 by various Acts of Parliament, both general and local, 

 throughout the United Kingdom. It is not, however, 

 until the present century that we find the subject 

 generally treated in a practical manner, and attempts 

 made to check the abuses then existing. We may 

 take as the foundations of our modern salmon-fishery 



