IICENCES TO DEAL IN GAME 

 _j These are outside the scope of this article, save so 

 far as concerns game farmers, whose position as dealers 

 in hve game is a somewhat difficult one to legally define. 

 There are no diredl dicisions of the Courts to guide us, 

 but the general opinion of those who have ^udied the 

 Game Laws Is that a game farmer who sells live game, 

 whether British or foreign (and not merely the eggs of 

 game), requires a licence to deal In game, whilst If he has 

 such a licence he Is undeniably liable to a penalty if he 

 keeps pheasants in a pen at any time from the 12th 

 February to the 30th September, both Inclusive. 



It IS likely, nov/ that County Councils have taken over 

 the licences, we shall soon see the que^ion before the 

 Courts. 



GUN LICENCES 

 Broadly speaking, every person who carries a gun, 

 except on behalf of another duly licensed person, mu^ 

 have a gun licence If he has not a game licence, but the 

 occupier of land, himself using a gun for the purpose of 

 scaring birds or killing vermin on such land, is exempt. 

 If he authorises any other person to do so for him, one 

 of them, It doesn't matter which, mu^ have a licence. 



A farmer scaring pigeons off his peas does not require 

 a licence, but If he kills a pigeon he does, though It has 

 not hitherto been the cu^om to prosecute In such a case. 



DOG LAW FOR SPORTSMEN 

 If a dog causes Injury to the sheep, cattle, horses, 

 asses, mules, goats, or pigs of another person, its ov/ner 



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