THE GROUND GAME ACT 209 



August 12, under a penalty of 20s.; and in many 

 counties this close time has since been varied by the 

 Lord Lieutenant on application of the Grand Juries, 

 so as to extend from April i to August 12. 



If a snare be set on a Saturday and game be 

 caught on Sunday, it is deemed to be used on Sunday 

 within the meaning of the Act, and the person setting 

 it is liable to a penalty, though he may not have been 

 on the land on Sunday. ^ 



The eleventh and last section gives the short title 

 of the Act and is as follows : — ' This Act may be cited 

 for all purposes as the Ground Game Act 1880.' 



Various points from time to time arise which, 

 although outside the direct wording of the Act, are 

 nevertheless more or less connected with points 

 expressly governed by it. For example, the question 

 sometimes arises whether an ' owner ' has the right to 

 ferret rabbits on the land which he has let to the 

 ' occupier.' The farmer will maintain that he has not, 

 and that he can only kill the ground game when out 

 shooting. But the farmer is wrong. An ' occupier ' 

 has no monopoly of any particular method of capture 

 conferred on him by the Ground Game Act. He has 

 merely a concurrent right to kill the hares and rabbits 

 on the land in his occupation, and the landlord 



' Allen V. Thompson, L.R. 5 Q.B. 336 ; 22 L.T. 472. 



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