GAME LAWS AND LICENCES 
trespass in pursuit of game are not to extend to any person hunting or 
coursing with hounds or greyhounds, or being in fresh pursuit of any 
deer, hare or fox; nor to any person claiming a right of free warren; nor 
to any gamekeeper appointed by a lord of a manor. 
As to the remainder of this Act, Sections 36 to 43 embody further details 
in regard to the subject-matter of previous sections; and Section 44 
provides that an appeal from any conviction under the Act lies to the 
next Quarter Sessions, of which three days’ notice must be given in 
writing. Certain sections, as 39, 40, 43, 45, 47, having been repealed by 
Summary Jurisdiction Acts, it is unnecessary here to consider their 
purport. 
It will be seen from the foregoing summary that this Act is a re- 
markably long one, and so comprehensive as to make it one of the most 
important. On this account it is usually referred to as “ the principal 
Game Act.” 
THE NIGHT POACHING ACT, 1844 
7 & 8 Viet., c. 27 
The object of this Act was to extend the provisions of the Night Poaching 
Act, 1828, the application of which was limited to offenders trespassing 
on enclosed land by night in pursuit of game. The Act of 1844 extended 
this to highways, public roads and paths, so as to make it impossible for 
a poacher, if summoned, to plead that he was not upon ‘‘the land” but 
upon the highroad. 
THE HARES ACT, 1848 
11 & 12 Viet., c. 29 
As it will be necessary to review the law relating to hares when we 
come to deal with ground game — shares and rabbits — it will suffice to 
state here very briefly that the object of this Act was to enable farmers 
to protect themselves from the damage done to their crops by hares, 
and it accordingly makes it lawful for any occupier of enclosed lands, 
or any owner having the right to kill game thereon, to kill any hare upon 
such lands without a game licence. It also authorizes (Section 4) the 
coursing of hares with greyhounds, or hunting them with beagles or 
harriers without having a game licence; and Section 8 provides that the 
Act is to extend only to England and Wales. 
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