EIGHT TO SHOOT IN PRIVATE LANDS. 573 



With regard to trespassing in pursuit of game, it has been 

 held that one having the right to shoot over land may do 

 so only in the usual and reasonable way, and may not tread 

 over fields of standing crops at a time when it is not usual 

 or reasonable.** But one of a hunt is not liable for damage 

 caused by the horses of the other members.*'' If, however, 

 one goes out sporting with his friends and purposely leads 

 them on another's land, he is equally guilty of a trespass, 

 though he may himself remain off the land.*® Permission 

 to shoot with "lessor, his heirs and assigns and any friend of 

 his or them" was held to be a privilege not confined to a 

 single friend at a time.*® Where the tenant of lands, with no 

 reservation of game by the landlord, and his lessee both give 

 leave to another to shoot, the latter cannot be convicted of 

 trespassing in pursuit of game.®" 



A person is not justified in entering the land of another 

 against his will for the purpose of fox-hunting.®^ But where 

 the demurrer admitted that the means adopted were the only 

 means for destroying the fox, it was held that the trespass was 

 justifiable.®^ If a hunted stag runs into a barn for shelter, 

 the owner of the hounds and his servants have no right to 

 enter the barn, and, if they do so, they are trespassers.®^ 



Where the owner of land set up a sign "No shooting or 

 hunting allowed on these premises," it was held to be a penal 



" Hilton V. Green, 2 F. & F. 821. 



" Paget V. Birkbeck, 3 F. & F. 683. 



■■' Hill V. Walker, Peake's Add. Cas. 234. S. P. Baker v. Berkeley, 3 C. 



& P. 32. 



=" Gardiner v. Colyer, 10 L. T. N. S. 7iS- 



=° Pochin V. Smith, 52 J. P. 4. And see, as to a license, Taylor v. Jack- 

 son, 78 L. T. N. S. 5SS- 

 " ■" Paul V. Summerhayes, 4 Q. B. D. 9- 



»' Gundry v. Feltham, I Term 334. 



'= Baker v. Berkeley, 3 C. & P. 32. 



The offenses of trespass in pursuit of game and unlawfully using a dog 

 for taking game, not having a license, are not the same: Bollard v. 

 Spring, SI J. P. soi. 



