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If game be started on the ground of another person, and it be killed 

 on the property of a third person, it will belong neither to him on whose 

 ground it was started, nor to him on whose ground it w^as killed, but to 

 the person who killed it, though he will be guilty of a trespass on the 

 grounds of both the other persons, if he shall not have obtained leave to 

 hunt on them. 



But if a stranger steal game in the chase or free warren of one man, 

 and hunt it into the liberty of another, the property will continue in 

 the owner of the chase or warren, and the keeper may pursue and re- 

 take it ; for, whilst the keeper pursues it, it does not in law pass into 

 a new liberty. 



A Chase. — This is a privileged place or enclosure for the keeping 

 of beasts of chase, or royal game, with exclusive power of hunting 

 therein. — 2 Blackstone, Comm. 38. 



A Free Warren. — This is a franchise granted by the king, for 

 the custody of beasts and fowls of warren, viz. : hares, rabbits, par- 

 tridges, pheasants, heath-game, &c. This franchise is now, however, 

 little known or attended to, the name being principally applied to 

 ground set apart for breeding rabbits. — 2 Black. Com. 



Of Trafficking in Game. — The act 1st & 2nd "Will. lY. repeals 

 all former acts, which prohibit the sale of game, and orders that in 

 every month of July, the justices of each county, &c., shall hold 

 a special session, on seven days' notice, for the purpose of granting 

 licences to deal in game ; and the majority of justices assembled at 

 such session, not being less than two, are authorized to grant, if they 

 think fit, to a householder, or keeper of a shop or stall, and not being 

 an innkeeper or victualler, or licensed to sell beer by retail, nor being 

 the owner, guard, or driver of any mail-coach, or of any stage-waggon, 

 &c., nor being a carrier or higgler, nor being in the employment of any 

 such persons, a licence to empower the person to whom it is granted to 

 buy game from any person lawfully authorized to sell it, and to sell 

 the same at one house, shop, or stall only, kept by the person so 

 licensed ; provided that every person so licensed shall afiix to some 

 part of the outside of the front of his house or shop, in legible charac- 

 ters, his Christian and surname, with the words, '"''Licensed to deal in 

 Game ;" such licence to continue in force one year after the granting 

 thereof. Persons licensed to deal in game must take out a certificate 

 with a duty of two pounds. 



Collectors to make out a list of persons licensed to deal in game ; 

 and where there are partners in a firm, one licence is sufficient. When 

 any convictions occur the licence becomes void. 



Any person selling game without a licence, or any licensed person 

 who possesses a certificate ofiering to sell game to an unlicensed dealer, 

 is liable to a fine of forty shillings and costs. 



Innkeepers may, without a licence, sell game for consumption in 



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