ACCOMPLICE

Is protected, if he becomes an informer, against those who
sell or buy Game. 175.301.

ACTION.-See Trespass... Limitation.

The plaintiff may recover fewer penalties than stated in the
declaration, 180.

He may recover several penalties for using a gun on dif-
ferent days.

180.

In an action, it is not necessary to negative all the qualifi-
cations, as in a conviction.

180.

Action or conviction may either state that the defendant
exposed a hare or the Game to sale, or had it in his possession.

180.

Ambiguity is cured by a verdict, 200,

Action for penalties, when introduced. 214.

Plaintiff at first recovered a moiety with double costs. 215.
Afterwards recovered the whole. 216.

In an action, the defendant must prove his qualification.
217.

If he has a verdict, he has his costs. 217.

Severe punishment for compounding the action without
leave of the Court. 218.

If an action be brought against several for the same penalty,
some may be found not guilty, the others guilty. 218.

Whether an action could be maintained for killing Game
with a stick.

218.

ALEHOUSE-KEEPERS.-See Buying and Selling.

APPEAL.

APPEAL.

No appeal to the Sessions against a conviction under the
Game Laws in general. 200.

When an appeal lies. 224.

APPRENTICES (See Trespass}

Liable to full costs. 97.

BANKERS' NOTES.

Not felony to steal from the banker. 256.
Nor from the bank, except by a clerk. 256.

BONA VACANTIA (See King)

Do not belong to the King. 25.

BUYING AND SELLING GAME.-See Improvements.

Buying and selling pheasants and partridges, when first
prohibited. 172.

Still further prohibited. 173.

How prohibited at present. 173.

Game-keeper selling, 176.

If any unqualified man has Game in his possession, not
entitled by a qualified man, it shall be adjudged to be an
exposing to sale. 177.

Every qualified man, who sells, is subject to a penalty of 51.
for each head of Game. 178.

Every higgler, chapman, carrier, inn-keeper, victualler, or
alehouse-keeper, who shall buy or sell, or have in his custody,
shall forfeit 51. for each head. 173.

Unless

Unless Game, in the custody of a carrier, be sent by a qua-

lified person. 173.

No penalty upon a qualified man for buying. 179.

CARRIER.-See Buying and Selling.

To kill Game. 235.

CERTIFICATE

The Certificate Acts do not alter the Game Laws. 235.
Certificate for taking Game, woodcock, snipe, quail, land-
rail, or rabbits. 236.

Duties to be paid. 237.

Woodcocks and snipes may be taken by nets and springes,
without a certificate. 239.

Rabbits, how taken without a certificate. 239.

Expires every 5th of April. 240.'

How to be obtained.

.

240.

The certificate does not indemnify against any other
penalty. 243.

Penalty of 201. for not producing certificate, or for giving a
false name or residence.

245.

Penalty for taking Game, woodcocks, &c. without a cer-
tificate. 246.

Penalty, how to be recovered. 247.

Witnesses who refuse to attend, subject to the penalty of
10l. 250.

Those who assist a person who has taken out his certificate
not as a game-keeper, not subject to the penalty. 253.

CERTIORARI.

How it is granted. 200.

The effect of it. 200.

No certiorari lies for killing grouse out of season, or killing
Game in the night. 224, 225.

CHARTA

CHARTA DE FORESTA.

Disafforested new-made forests. 31.

CHRISTMAS DAY.-See Times of Taking.

CLERGY MAN

Must have 150l. a year, in a living, to kill Game. 122.
The eldest son of a Clergyman in the commission of the
peace, not qualified, except in the Isle of Ely. 134.

COLLEGE.

Fellow of a College, qualified as such. 119.

May appoint a game-keeper. 147.

COMMONER

Has no right to kill Game upon a waste or common.

COMPOUNDING PENAL ACTION.

39.

Subject to heavy penalties, without leave of the Court. 128.

CONSPIRACY.

If two, or more, go together to kill Game, they cannot be
indicted for a conspiracy. 234.

CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTES AND LAWS.-See Liberty.

Penal statutes must be construed strictly in favour of the de-
fendant. 200.

Statutes in pari materiâ must be construed with a reference to
each other. 121.

Conflictus legum. 121.

Where the prosecution must be in doubtful cases.

210.

Apices juris, how considered by the Law of England. 211.

CONVICTION.

Good, though the witness swears the defendant used a gun to

destroy the Game, without specifying it. 169.

But

But the justice ought particularly to inquire whether he was
in pursuit of hares, pheasants, partridges, or grouse. 170.

There ought to be an information before a conviction. 184.
It is not bad, if the information is taken upon oath, though
that is not required by any statute. 184.

The information better in the time past. 185.

The information must negative every one of the qualifications
in the Qualification Act. 185.

The evidence need not negative all the qualifications. 185.194.
The exemptions subsequent to the existing clause of the Qua-
lification Act need not be negatived.

185.

The party should be summoned before he is convicted. 186.
The omission is cured by the defendant's appearance. 186.
If the conviction may be made upon the oath of one or two
witnesses, it may be made upon his confession. 186.

A confession extends only to the facts charged in the infor-
mation. 187.

Informer cannot be a witness, if he has any share of the
penalty. 187.

It must be stated, that the witnesses were examined in the
presence of the defendant. 188.

That will be presumed, if they were examined on the same

day the defendant appeared. 188.

How the evidence shall be set forth. 189.

There must be a judgment of forfeiture.

189.

How the penalty is to be distributed. ~189.

Conviction of a game-keeper, or for using greyhounds, &c.

must be made within three lunar months. 190.

The information need not be Qui tam. 191.

The meaning of Qui tam. 192.

The parish must be set out. 192.

If the place is extra-parochial, the informer is entitled to the
whole.

192.