438 GAME LAWS. 



period, within which an action may be commenced, is expired, can B 

 afterwards sue him for the trespass ? 



Answer. No, he cannot, as his right of action will be barred by 

 the statute, unless he sue out a writ within the limited period, and, 

 if A's residence be unknown, and he cannot be met with, to be served 

 with it, the action be kept on foot, by proper continuances, regularly 

 filed, till A can be met with ; and then B, if he can get him served, 

 may proceed with his action after the expiration of such period, the 

 same as if A had been served within it. 



LORDS OF MANORS. 



Since the several inclosure acts, doubts have been en- 

 tertained, whether lords of manors have a right to sport 

 over the freehold of any other person, within the manor, 

 after notice ; or whether a deputation to a gamekeeper 

 will justify his going on any grounds, except the lord's 

 own soil,? CLEARLY NOT. 



A lord of a manor, or his gamekeeper (unless in a, free warren, 

 or by an especial right reserved, in letting or selling property), 

 cannot sport on the land of another, without being liable to the same 

 action an any other trespasser; neither can he prevent those, who 

 are qualified, from sporting (on the grounds not his own) within the 

 manor. [Excepting officers!] 



ACT 



PASSED SINCE THE FIFTH EDITION. 



PERSONS FOUND AT NIGHT ARMED WITH INTENT TO KILL GAME. 



By 9 Geo. IV. c. 69, it is enacted that persons taking or destroying 

 game by night, viz. from the first hour after sunset till the first hour 

 before sunrise, should be committed for the first offence for three 

 months, and second offence for six months, and in both cases kept to 

 hard labour and find sureties, and for the third offence be liable to 

 be transported. 



