148 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



CHAP. VII. 



OF THE GAME LAWS RELATIVE TO ANGLING, 



1st. THE PENALTY OF FISHING IN PONDS AND OTHER PRIVATE 

 FISHERIES. 



1. ANY may erect a fish-pond without licence, 

 because it is a matter of profit, for the increase 

 of victuals. 2. Inst. 199. 



2. If any trespass in ponds be therefore attain- 

 ted at thesuit of the party, great and large amends 

 shall be awarded according to the trespass ; and 

 they shall have three years imprisonment, and 

 a ter shall make fine at the king's pleasure, (if 

 l 1 ey lave whereof) and then shall find good surely 

 t! at after they shall not commit the like trespass : 

 iind if they have not whereof to make fine, after 

 three years imprisonment, they shall find like 

 surety ; and if they cannot find surety, they 

 shall abjure the reahri. And if none sue within 

 tfie year and day, the king shall have feiiit. 3. 

 Ed. I. c. 20. Note, those are trespassers in 



fjonds, who endeavour to take fish therein. 2. 

 nst. 200. 



3. If any person shall unlawfully break, cut, 

 or destroy, any head or dam of a fish -pond, or 

 shall wrongfullv fish therein, with an intent to 



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