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the dog being of the description specified in the act 

 (" greyhound, setting dog, or lurcher,") it has been 

 suggested, that it would be advisable, in lodging the 

 information, to use the word setting dog as a kind of 

 general term. This point I must leave to the more 

 experienced to judge ; but, was an unqualified person 

 actually seen using any dog in the destruction of 

 game, I should then, if he had no certificate, put 

 him in the hands of the tax-gatherers; where he 

 would find himself in a sort of hornets' nest, from 

 which there would be very little hope of escape. 



By the f>2 Geo. III. cap. xciii. s. viii. (the act relating to cer- 

 tificates) " hound, pointer, spaniel, or other dog" is added. 



For farther information on this, vide under " Time 

 within which Actions must be brought." 



One who is warned off a ground, and sends his dog thereon, 

 is as much liable to an action of trespass, as if he went there 

 himself. 



WASTE LAND, 



SPORTING on, the exclusive right of the lord of a manor. 



It has been given as an opinion, that, although a 

 qualified person may, by common rights, have the 

 liberty of going, sending or keeping his cattle, on the 

 waste land, yet he has no right to sport there, with- 

 out leave from the lord of the manor. 



RABBITS, WOODCOCKS, SNIPES, &c. 



(How far they are made game.) 



RABBITS, woodcocks, snipes, quails, and landrails, are made 

 game only us far as relates to shooting them ; for which, therefore, 



