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Hare, a beast of warren. A hare is 'game' within the (English) Game Acts and Game Certificate Acts (see GAME); but by the (English) Hares Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 29), both occupier and owner may kill hares without a certificate, and by the (English) Ground Game Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 47), amended as to moorlands by the (English) Ground Game (Amendment) Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 21), the occupier has, 'incident to and inseparable from his occupation' a concurrent right with any other person to kill hares and rabbits on the land occupied. Any agreement purporting to divest an occupier of this right is by s. 3 void. As to such agreements, see Stanton v. Brown, (1901) 1 KB 671; Sherrard v. Gascoigne, (1900) 2 QB 279. See Waters v. Phillips, (1910) 2 KB 465, and Aggs on Agricultural Holdings.

The Hares Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 23), following 27 Geo. 3, c. 35, an act of the Irish Parliament repealed in the same year, made the period between 20th of April and 12th of August a close time for hares in Ireland, by making it penal either to kill or possess killed any hare or leveret during that period; but there was no close time for hares in England until 1892, when the (English) Hares Preservation Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 8), prohibited the sale of any hare or leveret in any part of Great Britain in March, April, May, or June'with a saving, however, for foreign imported hares. Killing of hares is forbidden on Sundays and Christmas Day (English) Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 32), s. 3; and on moorlands and unenclosed lands between April 1st and August 31st by (English) Ground Game (Amendment) Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 21), s. 2. As regards coursing, see (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27), s. 1(3).