THE LAW RELATING TO DEER AND GROUND GAME 
(3) The pursuing and killing of hares respectively by coursing with grey- 
hounds, or by hunting with beagles or other hounds. 
(4) The pursuing and killing of deer by hunting with hounds. 
(5) The pursuing and killing of deer in any inclosed lands by the owner 
or occupier of such lands, or by his direction or permission. 
The following exceptions also are made: 
(1) Any of the Royal Family. 
(2) Any person appointed a gamekeeper on behalf of His Majesty by 
the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, 
under the authority of any Act of Parliament relating to the land revenues 
of the Crown. 
(3) Any person aiding or assisting in the taking or killing of any game, 
or any woodcock, snipe, quail, landrail, or cony, or any deer in the com- 
pany or presence, and for the use of another person who shall have duly 
obtained (according to the directions of this Act) and in his own right, 
a licence to kill game, and who shall, by virtue of such licence, then and 
there use his own dog, gun, net or other engine for the taking or killing of 
such game, woodcock, snipe, quail, landrail, cony, or deer, and who shall 
not act therein by virtue of any deputation or appointment.* 
(4) And as regards the killing of hares only, all persons who under the 
provisions of the two several Acts 11 & 12 Viet., c. 29 & 30 respectively, 
are authorized to kill hares in England and Scotland respectively without 
obtaining an annual game certificate. f 
Subject, then, to the exception of owners and occupiers of inclosed 
lands, and persons having their direction or permission, anyone intending 
to kill deer must have a game licence under a penalty of £20. No excise 
licence, however, is required to sell deer. 
When deer are found wild on inclosed land the tenant may kill them if 
the “ sporting rights ” have not been reserved by his landlord. Reservation 
of the “ sporting rights ” would include a right to kill deer, but a reserva- 
tion of “ game ” would not; deer not being game. A tenant killing deer 
when reserved by his landlord is liable to an action for breach of covenant 
or agreement. 
On the death of an owner of a deer forest, the deer being wild would, 
like game, pass to the heir; but it is otherwise with park deer, which, 
being reclaimed and kept within an inclosure, like cattle, are distrainable 
*This exemption will be more fully considered later under the heading “Rabbits.” 
fThis exemption will be more fully considered later under the heading “Hares.” 
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