A dialogue between a lawyer and a country gentleman, upon the subject of the game laws, relative to hares, partridges, and pheasants. Wherein is shewn, The several Qualifications to kill Game; the Penalties such Persons are liable to who kill them without such Qualifications; the Manner of recovering such Penalties; the Difference between being subject to the Penalties, and being punished as Trespassers; the Distinction between voluntary and involuntary Trespassers; the necessary Steps to be taken to make wilful Trespassers, and the Consequences of being such; together with some Observations upon these Laws. To which are added Three Tables, Shewing at one View, the Offences,-The Statutes creating them,-the Persons to whom the Penalties are given,-the Manner of Recovery,-And lastly the several Penalties a Person may be liable to by one Act. With a Letter to John Glynn, Esq; Serjeant at Law, and Representative of the County of Middlesex, Upon the Penal Laws of this Country by a gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn, a freeholder of Middlesex.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Purlewent, S. (Samuel).

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Game laws--Great Britain.

Game laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv,[1],39,[1]p.,tables )

Other Title:

Dialogue between a lawyer and a country gentleman,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Wilkie, at No. 71. St. Paul's Church-Yard ; and P. Uriel, in the Inner-Temple Lane, MDCCLXXI. [1771]

Notes:

A gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn, a freeholder of Middlesex = Samuel Purlewent.

With a half-title.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T66787.

OCLC:

642662297