ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DERBY, K.G., &c., &c., &c., This Work IS, WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S KIND PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S HUMBLE SERVANT, GEORGE C. OKE. PREFACE. A LARGE edition of this Work, and a larger impression of the Poaching Prevention Act, 1862, having long since been disposed of, a Second Edition has been urgently called for. In editing the present Edition, I have carefully revised the Work, and made considerable additions and many improvements, by more copious Notes and new Chapters on branches of the subjects not in the previous edition, bringing the whole, with the Cases, down to the commencement of the Shooting Season. Among the new Chapters and Sections are those treating of the Scotch and Irish Game Laws (XVIII., p. 225, and XIX., p. 255); Property in Game and other Wild Animals (I., p. 26); Actions of Trespass at Common Law (VII., Sect. 2, p. 108); the Poaching Prevention Act, 25 & 26 Vict. c. 114 (XVI., p. 196), and the Poisoned Grain Prohibition Act, 1863 (IX., Sect. 2, p. 123). The Scotch and Irish Fishery Acts, referred to at p. 327, would, but for their great length (equal to half, at least, of this Volume), have been in serted in extenso, an abstract being of very little practical use. The Report or Resolutions of the Committee of the House of Commons on the Game Laws, in 1846, have also been inserted in the Introduction (pp. 19-23), and I have there ventured to offer some suggestions (pp. 23-25) for simplifying and amending the Game Laws, if it should be deemed expedient to alter them at any future period. I trust, therefore, that this Edition will be found to be an improved and more useful one than its predecessor. LONDON, 17th September, 1863. G. C. O. |