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can remove any cause of complaint. In the case of 

 damage by deer, pheasants, partridges, grouse, or black 

 game, amounting to more than one shilling's worth of 

 harm done per acre over the area damaged, any tenant 

 can now claim an arbitration with his landlord to recover 

 money compensation. In order to do so he must give 

 the landlord written notice of the damage and of his 

 claim, and must provide sufficient opportunity for an 

 inspection of the damage upon the landlord's behalf 

 before the crop is raised or cut, or if a reaped crop is 

 damaged before it is removed from the field. There is 

 no right to compensation for damage done by any kind 

 of deer or game which the tenant himself is entitled to 

 kill. This right to compensation is statutory, and the 

 tenant cannot contract to do without it, but in fixing 

 the amount payable there must be deducted any sums 

 of money compensation which the tenant is entitled to 

 independently under his contract or lease. Any com- 

 pensation which the landlord has to pay under this law 

 may be recovered by him from the shooting tenant. 



Farmers rights of shooting and trapping. Any 

 farmer or agricultural tenant may also possess such 

 rights of shooting as he has contracted for with his 

 landlord under the lease. Apart from this, the Ground 

 Game Acts give to every occupier of land the right (of 

 which he cannot divest himself) to kill the hares and 

 rabbits on his holding. The right may be exercised 

 by the occupier or persons authorised by him in writing. 

 The occupier and one other person so authorised are 



