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hunt. If the hunt claiming to have acquired a 

 particular bit of countr\* has omitted during the 

 period of acquisition to hunt it for a single season, or 

 has hunted it otherwise than with foxhounds pur et 

 simple (by which is meant hounds hunting fox and 

 fox only), or has made an admission that it is hunted 

 on loan from another hunt, the claimant cannot make 

 a good title, and the prescribed period of twenty years 

 has to begin again from the date of such omission, 

 irregular huntins. or admission. 



The claim set up on behalf of the pack formerly 

 hunted by Mr. Bragg, now known as the >Iid-Devon. 

 appears to have rested on the following allegations : 

 that the disputed region had been hunted continu- 

 ouslv bv Bragg with his own hounds since 1865 ; 

 that previous to that year it had been hunted for a 

 great number of years by packs other than the South 

 Devon ; that neither Haworth, Lane nor ^Vhidbome 

 (in his first mastership) ever made a fixture further 

 moorwards than Reddaford Water and Yamer ; 

 that the leave of the landowners had been obtained : 

 that Bragg in the past had held, and his successor at 

 that time held, a Ucence from the Duchy of Cornwall 

 to hunt foxes within its territory, and that the 

 country in dispute never was South Devon country-. 



The answer of the South Devon was to the effect 

 that at the time Bragg first set up his claim, and from 

 then right down to the year ISSO, his hoiuids were 

 harriers, and, as such, had no status and were 

 incapable of acquiring a countr\' as foxhounds ; that 

 the South Devon had regularly hunted over the 

 disputed area since 1865 and also long before that 

 date : that any other packs hunting it had done so 

 with the permission of the South Devon Hunt : that the 

 leave of landowners or hcence from the Duchv could 



