SPECIAL NOTICE 



This Book is now out of print. A New Edition is in pre- 

 paration, thoroughly revised to date, with Table of Statutes and 

 Table of Cases and Index. 



SHOTS FROM A LAWYER'S GUN 



BY 



NICHOLAS EVERITT 



AUTHOR OF " FERRETS : THEIR MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH AND DISEASE." 

 JOINT-AUTHOR OF "PRACTICAL NOTES ON GRASSES AND GRASS GROWING," ETC. 



A SIGHTING SHOT 



THIS is a book which should be purchased by every Country Landed Proprietor, 

 Gamekeeper, and other persons interested in the protection and rearing of Game. 



It is not a dry treatise of the Law, bristling with technicalities and terms that 

 cannot be understood, but it is an elucidation of troublesome legal points con- 

 cerning sport which every day arise and are discussed at the Hall and in the 

 Keeper's Cottage. These knotty problems are illustrated, explained, and made 

 into interesting reading by cases drawn from actual experience. 



The professional secrets of a certain wily old sporting solicitor, who in days 

 gone by was known as "The Poachers' Lawyer" (and who figures under the 

 sobriquet of Mr Six-and-Eight), are laid bare, and many an amusing incident 

 has been culled from the storehouse of his inexhaustible memory, in the 

 recounting of which the Author has preserved the original humour, not forgetting 

 to point the (legal) moral of the tale. 



How to circumveiit the law with impunity, and how the law-breaker is 

 circumvented, are alike dealt with ; in short, the book will be found to be brimful 

 of interesting and most valuable information and laughable anecdote. 



Examples of tt|e absurdities of the Law wtycfj are 

 exposed iq this book. 



It is law although unreasonable that if a rabbit or a land -rail is shot under 

 certain circumstances (see page 81), without the shooter having first taken out 

 a game licence to kill game, he can be convicted of such an omission, and fined 

 20 and costs. 



It is law although ridiculous that a man with his dog may be fined 2 and 

 costs for trespass in pursuit of a rabbit in the daytime, and yet may be permitted 

 to commit the same offence with impunity at night (see pages 153-154). 



It is law though absurd that, in spite of the "Wild Birds' Protection 

 Acts," naturalistic law-breakers can, and openly do, break the law, defy the 

 authorities of justice, and make a very handsome profit by so doing out of their 

 lawlessness (see pages 261-263). 



It is law although startling that the owners of game farms throughout 

 the United Kingdom who are licensed dealers in game (which they practically 

 must be to carry on their business successfully), are liable to prosecution and 

 conviction for being unlawfully in the possession of game birds during the close 

 time (see page 273) ; penalty 1 per head for every pheasant and partridge in 

 their mews. 



It is law although it was never intended so to be that at shooting parties, 

 which daily take place throughout the shooting season, the beaters, keepers, 

 loaders, and persons innocently assisting are more often than not liable to be 

 prosecuted by the Inland Revenue authorities and heavily fined (20 and costs)' 

 for killing game without a licence (see page 240). 



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