GAME LAWS. 415 



It is said, that a lord of a manor, or his keeper, 

 cannot seize the gun of any person whatever, unless 

 it has been used, by the person carrying it, in de- 

 stroying, or with an intent to destroy game. (Sed 

 quere ?) 



TIME WITHIN WHICH INFORMATIONS AND 

 ACTIONS MUST BE BROUGHT. 



Informations for penalties, relative to the game laws, should 

 be brought so as for the conviction to take place within three 

 months. 



A penalty may be either recovered by information before a 

 justice of peace, or sued for in any of the courts of record at 

 Westminster. In the latter case, the action must be brought 

 within six lunar months after the offence committed. 



By this way of proceeding, the informer, as plain- 

 tiff, will, if he recover in the action, be entitled to 

 the -whole of the penalty for his own use (instead of 

 one half going to the poor, as in cases of information), 

 and the defendant will, of course, have to pay double 

 costs. (Vide 2 Geo. III. cap. xxix.) 



By the 48th Geo. III. cap. Iv. the penalties against such as 

 have not obtained their certificates shall be sued for in like form 

 as any penalty may be sued for and recovered by the acts relating 

 to the duties under the management of the commissioners for 

 faxes, or any of the said acts (see 43 Geo. III. cap. xcix. s. Ixiv.) ; 

 by which the penalties are recoverable before any two or more 

 commissioners for the affairs of taxes, who shall give judgment 

 for the penalty, or for such part thereof as the commissioners 

 shall think proper tg mitigate, not being less than one moiety. 



The time prescribed for bringing an Action of trespass, affect- 

 ing land (which is called an action qitare clausvmfregit), for the 



