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Batfowling
and beating the bush or perch where they roost The birds flying to the light are caught with nets or otherwise
Qualification Act (English)
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ferrets, coney-dogs, lurchers, bags, nets, loubels, hare-pipes, gins, snares, or other engines,' for taking game-repealed, with many other Acts, by the Game Act,
Deer-hayes
Deer-hayes, engines or great nets made of cord to catch deer, 19 Hen. 7, c. 11. Repealed
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Custom
Customs are of different kinds, as customs of merchants, customs of a particular parish (as to which see NETS) or manor, etc. If there be an invariable certain and general usage or custom of any particular tradeor
Tinkermen
Tinkermen, fishermen who destroyed the young fry in the river Thames by nets and unlawful engines.
Lobster pot
trap lobsters consisting of a semi cylindrical structure made of wooden slats with openings formed of funnel shaped nets allowing lobsters to enter but impeding their exit It is also called a lobster trap
Statutory trusts
Statutory trusts. for the purposes of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, land held upon 'statutory trusts' shall be held upon trust for sale and to stand possessed of the net proceeds of sale after...
Parochial Assessment Act, 1836
Parochial Assessment Act, 1836 (English) (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 96), whereby poor-rates were made on the net annual value of the rateable property, is now repealed and the net annual rateable value is defined...
Heymectus
Heymectus, a hay-net; a net for catching conies.
Earned surplus
Earned surplus, it represents a specific account into which are added the net profits of the year and appropriations are made out of it and the balance is regarded as 'earned surplus' at the end of...
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