the use of firearms, but on moorlands or unenclosed lands 

 only from 1 st September to 3 1 st March inclusive. 



There are special penalties for unlawfully taking hares or 

 rabbits or setting snares or traps for the same in warrens 

 or places set apart for the breeding of hares or rabbits. 



The Night Poaching Ads apply equally to Scotland 

 and Ireland. 



FORESHORES 

 By "Foreshore" is meant not what is commonly 

 included in the term beach, but only the land between 

 the average Ime of ordmary high tides and the average 

 line of ordinary low tides, />., not the springs and neaps 

 but the tides at periods between these two. The sands, 

 shingle or rocks which are above the average line of 

 ordinary tides, and are sometimes covered by the sea at 

 spring tides are presumed to belong to the owner of the 

 adjoining inland. 



Below the average line of ordinary low tides the soil 

 is the property of the Crown, and the soil of the fore- 

 shore itself is presumed to belong to the Crown until the 

 contrary is proved. This rule applies to all inlets of the 

 sea, eituaries and navigable rivers as far as ordinary high 

 tides flow. The greater part of the foreshores of this 

 country, however, have at different times been granted to 

 private persons, usually the Lords of the Manors of the 

 adjoining lands. The original grants in many cases are not 

 in exigence, but the private ownership can be proved by 

 long usage. 



Where the soil of any part of the foreshore is veiled in 



