A dialogue between a lawyer and a country gentleman, [electronic resource] : 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; the Difference between Inferior and Superior Tradesmen, and the Consequences of Inferior Tradesmen committing Trespasses; 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,-The Costs a Plaintiff is intitled to,-the Time when the Information or Action ought to be brought; 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 Lincolns-Inn, a freeholder of Middlesex.
1771
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A dialogue between a lawyer and a country gentleman, [electronic resource] : 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; the Difference between Inferior and Superior Tradesmen, and the Consequences of Inferior Tradesmen committing Trespasses; 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,-The Costs a Plaintiff is intitled to,-the Time when the Information or Action ought to be brought; 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 Lincolns-Inn, a freeholder of Middlesex.
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Purlewent, S. (Samuel).
Edition
[The third edition].
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London : printed for J. Wilkie , at No. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard ; and P. Uriel, in the Inner-Temple Lane, MDCCLXXI. [1771]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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54,[2]p., tables ; 8⁰.
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A gentleman of Lincoln's-Inn, a freeholder of Middlesex = Samuel Purlewent.
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Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".
Edition statement from half-title.
Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".
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English Short Title Catalog, N55642.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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