a private person the public have no right to shoot on or 

 over such foreshore, or, speaking generally, even to walk 

 thereon. In such cases it is not even possible to prove a 

 cu^om for the inhabitants of a particular parish to shoot 

 there, and however long they may have been allowed by 

 the owner of the foreshore in question to do so, such 

 owner may at any time revoke the permission. 



A "trespass in pursuit" may be committed on a private 

 foreshore as well as on inland soil, and if it is proved that 

 any rabbits, hares or other game, or any woodcocks, snipe^ 

 quails or landrails are ever found there, it is a que^ion 

 of fad for the magistrates to find whether the person 

 prosecuted was in fad in pursuit of any such. If he was 

 not, he can only be treated as an ordinary trespasser and 

 either turned off or proceeded again^ by civil adion. 



GROUND GAME 

 The occupier of land, whether he be a tenant or 

 an owner who has let the shooting, has the right of which 

 he cannot by any means deprive himself to take ground 

 game on land in his occupation. He may take or kill 

 them in any way, except by poisons, and save that spring 

 traps may only be employed in rabbit holes, nor must 

 firearms be used at night. 



The right is a personal one which cannot be assigned, 

 but he may depute the right of taking the ground game 

 to all or any of the persons in his ordinary service on the 

 land and the members of his household resident on the 

 land, and to one outsider, if the latter is bona fide em- 

 ployed for reward to kill and take the ground game. 

 Only one of the above persons at a time can be authorised 



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