Excerpt from The Criminal Law Consolidation Statutes On the other hand, the limited object in view has led to the retention in the Consolidation Acts of a class of offences, which undoubtedly range rather with the Game laws than with larceny or similar offences. Setting snares for hares and rabbits, destroying fences where deer are kept, and fishing in private property, are all dealt with, and of course are not treated as larceny, or as if they resembled larceny, but as acts of trespass, punishable on summary conviction. The reason for their retention is of course, that they are to be found in Peel's Acts, and that unless there was merely a partial repeal of the 7 8 Geo. 4, c. 29, it was absolutely necessary to deal with these offences. They obtained a place in Peel's Acts for similar reasons, and also because the general Game laws were then a vexed question, not ripe at that moment for legislation. Perhaps, as the least of two evils, the best course on the present occasion would have been to leave these particular clauses unrepealed (a course adopted with numerous other statutes), to be embraced in some future consolidated statute relating to the Game laws. Be that as it may, they operate injuriously on the attempted syste matic classification. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.