Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Considerations on the Game Law. In Answer to a Pamphlet, Intitled, The Present State of the Game Law, and the Question of Property, Considered
Author: Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Gentlemen and Poachers
Author: Munsche
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521232845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The eighteenth-century English game laws have long been synonymous with petty tyranny. By imposing a property qualification on sportsmen, they effectively denied all but country gentlemen the right to take game or even to possess a gun. Those who challenged the gentry's monopoly were fined or imprisoned, usually after only a summary hearing by the local justice of the peace. In the early nineteenth century, it was claimed that one out of every four inmates in England's prisons was an offender against the game laws. Bitterly denounced at the time, they have continued to be condemned by historians as arbitrary, savage and unjust. This book is the first full scholarly examination of the English game laws. Based on material drawn from over two dozen archives - including judicial records, estate correspondence and personal diaries - it attempts to explain what the laws actually were, why they were passed, how they were enforced and why they were eventually repealed. The picture which emerges from this investigation challenges the conventional wisdom about the game laws in a number of important respects.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521232845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The eighteenth-century English game laws have long been synonymous with petty tyranny. By imposing a property qualification on sportsmen, they effectively denied all but country gentlemen the right to take game or even to possess a gun. Those who challenged the gentry's monopoly were fined or imprisoned, usually after only a summary hearing by the local justice of the peace. In the early nineteenth century, it was claimed that one out of every four inmates in England's prisons was an offender against the game laws. Bitterly denounced at the time, they have continued to be condemned by historians as arbitrary, savage and unjust. This book is the first full scholarly examination of the English game laws. Based on material drawn from over two dozen archives - including judicial records, estate correspondence and personal diaries - it attempts to explain what the laws actually were, why they were passed, how they were enforced and why they were eventually repealed. The picture which emerges from this investigation challenges the conventional wisdom about the game laws in a number of important respects.
Bibliography of Economics, 1751-1775
Author: Henry Higgs
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Law Books in the Advocates Library
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Legal Literature
Author: J. N. Adams
Publisher: Avero Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Publisher: Avero Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Bibliography of Economics ...: 1751-1775, by Henry Higgs
Author: Henry Higgs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature: Printed books to 1800, compiled by Margaret Canney and David Knott.-v.2.Printed books 1801-1850, compiled by Margaret Canney, David Knott and Joan M.Gibbs
Author: Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description