Qualification Act (English) (22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25), by which any person not having freehold land of the yearly value of 100l., or for his life or for 99 years or more of the yearly value of 150l. other than the son and heir of an esquire or person of higher degree, or owners of parks or warrens, stocked with deer or conies for their necessary use in respect of the said parks and warrens,' was prohibited from having 'guns, bows, greyhounds, setting-dogs, ferrets, coney-dogs, lurchers, bags, nets, loubels, hare-pipes, gins, snares, or other engines,' for taking game-repealed, with many other Acts, by the Game Act, 1831. See GAME.
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