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Ground Game Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 41), and Ground Game (Amendment) Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 21), giving to occupiers concurrent rights with owners to kill hares and rabbits. See HARES...
Game
Game [fr. gaman, Sax.], all sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as including for the purposes of that Act 'hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor-game, black game, and bustards'; but some of its provisions are directed to trespass in pursuit of woodcocks, snipes, quails, land rails, and coneys.At Common Law game belongs to a tenant and not to a landlord, but leases frequently contain a reservation of the game to the landlord, and before the Game Act, 1831, the right to kill game was restricted to freeholders having 100l. a year freehold, or leaseholders having a 99 years' leasehold of 150l. a year, etc. This Act repeals the (English) Qualification Act of 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25, and (after giving the game to landlords in the case of leases made before the Act for less than 21 years-a provision now expired) protects reservations of game by penal provisions. The Act also requires all persons k...
Hare
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 c. 23), following 27 Geo. 3, c. 35, an act of the Irish Parliament repealed in the same year, made the period between 20th of April and 1...
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...
Coney
Coney [fr. cuniculus, Lat.], a rabbit. See s. 31 of the (English) Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as to arrest of trespasser in pursuit of 'game or woodcocks, snipes, quails, landrails, or coneys,' if he refuses to quit or give his name and address; and see GAME; GROUND GAME ACT; and RABBIT....
Gaming or gambling
Gaming or gambling, the playing any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth.The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards, or any unlawful games, under penalties of 40s. for every day of so keeping the house, and 6s. 8d. for every time of playing therein; and the (English) Gaming Act, 1738 (12 Geo. 2, c. 28) (applied by the Gaming Act, 1739 (13 Geo. 2, c. 19), to all games with dice, except backgammon, and by the (English) Gaming Act, 1744 (18 Geo. 2, c. 34), to 'roulet, otherwise roly-poly'), declares hazard and other games to be lotteries, so that the keepers of tables for them are liable to penalties under the (English) Lotteries Act, 1721 (8 Geo. 1, c. 2), the (English)Lotteries Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 6), and the Lotteries Act, 1698 (10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17); the system ofincorporation of previous statutes by referencebeing carried very far in gaming legislation.Gaming in Public-houses, etc.--Sect. 79 of the (E...
Contract, freedom of
Contract, freedom of. Modern legislation has fre-quently interfered with freedom of contract, as, e.g., by invalidating contracts, as, e.g., by invalidat-ing contracts exempting railway companies from their liabilities as carriers of goods by the 7th s. of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, or depriving a tenant of his right to kill hares and rabbits under the Ground Game Act,1880; and see a list of such in validations in Chitty on Contacts, 18th Edn., 778....
Gaming
Gaming, it is the act or practice of gambling on a game of chance. It is staking on chance where chance is the controlling factor, K.R. Lakshmanan (Dr.) v. State of T.N., AIR 1996 SC 1153 (1165): (1996) 2 SCC 226. [T.N. Gaming Act, (3 of 1930), s. 11]Gaming is an inclusive definition which includes a game of chance and skill combined or a pretended game of chance or of chance and skill combined. M.J. Sivani v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1995 SC 1770 (1772): (1995) 8 SCC 289....
Bowling, game of
Bowling, game of, legalized by the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming'), s. 1 of which repeals 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, which Act by s. 16 decreed that labourers, 'servants at husbandry,' fishermen, and others named therein, might not play bowls or other games named therein 'out of Christmas,' and 'in Christmas only in their masters' houses or in their masters' presence.'...
Black game
Black game, heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse, is 'game' (see that title) within the (English) Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), by s. 2 of that Act....
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