612 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



gained by finding it within his own liberty is continued 

 by the immediate pursuit, 1 1 Mod. Rep. 75. But if it 

 be started on another man's ground, and killed there, it 

 will belong to him on whose ground it was killed, this 

 property arising ratione soli. Lord Raym. 251. 



Moreover, if, having been started on another per- 

 son's ground, it be killed on that of a third person, it 

 will belong neither to him on whose ground it was 

 started, nor to him on whose ground it was killed, 

 but to the person who killed it, though he will be 

 guilty of a trespass on the grounds of both the other 

 persons. 



But if a stranger start 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 

 retake it ; for, whilst the keeper pursues it, it does 

 not in law pass into a new liberty. 



A Chase 



Is a privileged place for the keeping of beasts of 

 chase of royal game, with exclusive power of hunting 

 therein. 2 Black Com. 38. 



A Gamekeeper. 



The 23d of Charles II. c. 22, s. 2, authorizes lords 

 of manors, or other royalties, not under the degree 

 of an, esquire, to appoint gamekeepers within their 

 manors or royalties, to take and seize all guns, bows, 

 greyhounds, setting-dogs, lurchers, &c. ferrets, tram- 

 mels, nets, engines, &c. for the purpose of taking and 



