Appendix. 557 



but there are one or two sections of other Acts which 

 also apply to such offences. 



GAME ACTS APPLYING TO SCOTLAND. 



The Game Laws of Scotland are considerably more com- 

 plicated than those of England, without showing any material 

 improvement on them. They, moreover, take up a different^ 

 standpoint as to the property in game. In the southern; 

 province of Great Britain, game is vested in the tenant, 

 whereas in Scotland it is vested in the landlord, there being, 

 of course, in each case no agreement to the contrary. In 

 Scotland the word " game" is not so definite as in England, 

 for although, as a rule, game is held to be the same in both 

 countries, the Scottish Acts individually do not apply to 

 every kind of game. As far as licences for game are con- 

 cerned, the laws of the two countries are identical ; but 

 in Scotland a landed qualification is, in the first instance, 

 necessary to kill game, although it is perfectly permissible 

 for a person qualified by the possession of a " plough-gate 

 of land" (1621, c. 31) to lease the game and right of killing 

 same to an unqualified person. This Act is still in force, 

 and applies, in antiquated terms, to shooting and hunting: 



(n.) QUALIFICATION TO KILL GAME. 



" Our soveraigne lord, and estates of this present parliament, statutes and 

 ordaines, that no man hunt nor haulk at any time hereafter, who hath not a 

 plough of land in heritage, under the paine of ane hundreth pounds (8 6s. Sd.). 

 Ordaines his majestic to have the one halfe of the penaltie of the contraveeners 

 of this present Act ; and the dilator to have the other halfe of the said penaltie." 



The "plough-gate" of land is generally held to be from 96 to 104 acres 



Scotch). 



(12.) CLOSE TIMES IN SCOTLAND. 



The Acts regulating the close times for killing game and for moor-burning are : 

 1707, c. 13 ; 13 Geo. Ill;, c. 54; and 23 and 24 Viet., c. 90. Enumeration of 



