Cony - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Chief hare
A small rodent Lagamys princeps inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains also called crying hare calling hare cony American pika and little chief hare...
Coney
A rabbit See Cony...
Cony
A rabbit esp the European rabbit Lepus cuniculus...
Cony catch
To deceive to cheat to trick...
Cony catcher
A cheat a sharper a deceiver...
Daman
A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus that of Northern Africa is Hyrax Brucei called also ashkoko dassy and rock rabbit See Cony and Hyrax...
Heymectus
Heymectus, a hay-net; a net for catching conies....
Qualification Act (English)
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ferrets, coney-dogs, lurchers, bags, nets, loubels, hare-pipes, gins, snares, or other engines,' for taking game-repealed, with many other Acts, by the Game Act, 1831.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....
Rabbit
Rabbit, also termed 'coney' in the (English) Game Act, 1831, ss. 30-32 of which render trespass in the daytime in pursuit of conies punishable on summary conviction by fine upto 2l; trespassers may be required to quit the land and to tell their names and abodes on pain of arrest on refusal, and similar trespass with violence by five or more armed persons is punishable by fine up to 5l. By the (English) Night Poaching Act, 1828, s. 1, unlawfully taking or destroying game or rabbits by night is punishable on summary conviction by imprisonment up to three months with hard labour (with increased punishments for second or third offences); and by s. 9 of the same Act, armed persons to the number of three or more unlawfully entering land for the purpose of destroying game or rabbits are punishable after conviction on indictment by penal servitude up to ten years or imprisonment with hard labour up to three years.A tenant may shoot rabbits on his farm, although the right of sporting is reserve...
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