CHAPTER XX 

 SOME BROAD FACTS IN ANGLING LAW 



By HENRY LAMOND 

 (Secretary of the Loch Lomond Angling Improvement Association) 



IT would be absurd to attempt to comprise within a 

 single brief chapter a compendium of the law of fishing 

 in Scotland, if at the same time one were expected to 

 advance reasons and authority for each proposition 

 stated. Proprietors and their keepers, or fish watchers, 

 however, need never be at a loss on any given point if 

 the country-house library contains, as it ought to do, 

 Stewart's Treatise on the Law of Scotland relating to 

 Rights of Fishing , and Tait's useful book on The Law 

 of Scotland on the Game Laws, Trout, and Salmon- 

 Fishing. In both of these care must be taken to dis- 

 tinguish between what has actually, in recently decided 

 cases, been found to be law and what is merely the 

 author's opinion. A useful feature of these books is 

 that they give as appendices the Salmon Fishery Acts 

 from 1828 to 1868 as well as the Trout Acts of 1845 

 and 1860, but not the recent Trout Act of 1902. 

 With these Acts every fish watcher should be familiar, 



because it will add much to the value of his services 



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