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Spring guns. The setting of spring guns, etc., calculated to destroy life or inflict grievous bodily harm on a trespasser, is a misdemeanour, Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 31. Damages are recoverable by a person injured by a spring gun, set without notice, from the person setting it, Bird v. Holbrook, (1828) 4 Bing 628.