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rails, grouse, plovers, snipe, jacksnipe, hares, rabbits, chev- 

 reuil, stags, or deer. 



Thus, as to the game mentioned above, no sport can take 

 place but by shooting or coursing, but rabbits can at all 

 times be taken with nets and ferrets. 



6. Absolute prohibition, after the closing of the season, 

 of using nets, snares, or engines applicable to or capable of 

 taking or destroying any sort of game not herein specified. 



7. Prohibition to expose for sale, buy, or hawk, during 

 the close season, quails, pheasants, partridges, gelinottes, 

 blackcock, rails, snipe, jacksnipe, hares, roebucks, stags, and 

 deer. 



Article 2 of the law above referred to reproduces the 

 ancient legislation and the principles of the law of 1790 as 

 to the ownership of the right of pursuit of game. Every 

 kind of right, even in the matter of small birds, is forbidden 

 on the land of another without the proprietor's consent. The 

 right to game is a right inherent to the property. The pos- 

 sessor of the soil has, therefore, the right to dispose of it. 

 He may transmit this right to a third persoo, that is to say, 

 he may let or cede the game on his property. In that case 

 this third party is the representative of the owner. The 

 farmer to whom the right of game has not been granted 

 under his lease cannot sport without the permission of the 

 landlord. 



Poaching prevails largely in Belgium, especially in the 

 vicinity of large manufacturing towns, many of the work- 

 men in which, preferring a life of crime to the pursuit of an 

 honest calling, organize themselves in bands more or less 

 numerous, and systematically endeavour to enrich themselves 

 at the expense of their neighbours. 



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