THE GAME LAWS. 1 



The following question was lately put to the board 

 of taxes: " Whether one game certificate will be 

 sufficient for each deputation, or whether as many 

 certificates as there are manors named must be taken 

 out; and also, whether the certificate should be taken 

 out where the manor is situate or, where jhe keeper 

 resides?" The commissioners returned the follow- 

 ing answer : " One certificate only is necessary for 

 each deputation ; and the certificate must be taken 

 out where the master, or keeper, resides, depending 

 on the payment ; for each of which cases, a separate 

 certificate is directed." 



Fere v. Lord Cawdon. 



This was an action to recover the value of two 

 sporting-dogs. Mr. Garrow stated the case: In 

 August 1808, as the plantiff was going with his dogs 

 on a shooting-excursion, he passed nearLord Cawdon's 

 house at Golden-grove ; his luggage got loose, and 

 in the delay of securing it, his dogs scattered them- 

 selves through the fields in pursuit of hares. In a 

 few minutes the report of fire-arms was heard, and 

 the plantiff found that two of his dogs had been shot 

 by the keeper, in obedience to the general orders of 

 his master to that effect. A correspondence took 

 place between the parties, in which the defendant 

 declined giving the plaintiff any satisfaction. Lord 

 Ellenborough observed, that the general order for 

 shooting the dogs that might trespass, was altogether 

 unjustifiable and illegal; that the question for the 



