9.12 MAXrAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 



veyor, ins^pcctor, gamekeeper of tlie manor, or landlord or lessee of the 

 land npon wliicli the trespasser is found. 



A verbal notice from the occnpier of the land is sufficient ; and, in- 

 deed, the occupier of land has a legal right to order the lord of the ma- 

 nor, or even his own landlord, to abstain from sporting on the ground he 

 occupies, unless he has secured this privilege by a clause in the lease. 



A verbal notice from either a keeper or a lord of the manor, is not 

 sufficient ; keepers usually carry printed notices, which should be in 

 the following style : — 



*' Hollymount, August 20th, 1847. 

 " To Mr. , 



" 1 hereby give you notice, that if you shoot, hunt, net, hawk, or take 

 fowl, or fish, with any engine, or by any other means destroy game, 



or fish upon any of my lands, manors, or royalties, within in the 



parish of , I shall deem you a M'ilful trespasser, and proceed 



against you as the law directs. 



" Signed, ." 



It is necessary that this notice be signed by every tenant or occupier 

 of land throughout the manor; and if any tenant witholds his or her 

 sionature, the notice will not extend to the land of wiiich he or she is 

 in possession; but the mandate of the landlord is generally sufficient 

 if no remedy is inserted in the lease. As it seldom happens that the 

 lord is owner of the entire fee-simple of the manor, occupiers of land, 

 independent of him, may refuse to back his notices ; they, of course, 

 liave not the effect of debarring the sportsman from such parts, if the 

 occupier does not object. 



A notice remains in force during the life of the individual to whom 

 it is given, except in cases where a change of lord of the manor takes 

 place, by death or otherwise ; then, a second notice becomes necessary ; 

 or, if there is any change in the occupation of the land, a new notice 

 must be issued by such occupier. 



N. B. If a sportsman intrude upon ground from which he has been 

 leo-ally warned off, it is deemed a wilful trespass, although no damage 

 may liave been done by him. 



Legal Property in Game. — The legal property which qualified 

 persons have in game, generally continues so long onl^ as the game re- 

 mains within the limits of the manor, or liberty of the owner ; never- 

 theless it is held, that if, after having been started upon a person's own 

 grounds, it be pursued and killed on those of another, it will be right- 

 fully the property of him who started it, because the possession which 

 he acquired by finding it within his owm manor or liberty, is continued 

 by the immediate pursuit. — 11 Mod. Rep. ^o. But if it be started on 

 the ground of another man, and killed there, it will belong to him on 

 whose ground it was killed, this property arising ratione soli. — Lord 

 Raymond, 251. 



