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The Ground Game Act 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 47) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in 1880 by Gladstone's government, as a result of many complaints over many decades about the intolerable amount of damage that farmers' crops were suffering from damage by wild rabbits and hares and landowners not allowing farmland occupiers to kill them because of game preservation.
The act gives land occupiers the inalienable right to kill rabbits and hares on the land which they occupy, without having to ask their landlords for permission.[1][2] The act was criticised in the Political Science Quarterly in 1894 for the "red tape" surrounding the act.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Section 11.
- ↑ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.
References
[edit]- ↑ Bowen, James P. (April 2023). "'Success to the Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture': a reappraisal of the role of chambers of agriculture in Britain during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries". Rural History. 34 (1): 55–73. doi:10.1017/S095679332200022X. ISSN 0956-7933.
- ↑ Porter, J. H. (1986). "Tenant Right: Devonshire and the 1880 Ground Game Act". The Agricultural History Review. 34 (2): 188–197. ISSN 0002-1490.
- ↑ Porritt, Edward (1894). "The Revolt Against Feudalism in England". Political Science Quarterly. 9 (1): 64–77. doi:10.2307/2139904. ISSN 0032-3195.
External links
[edit]- Text of the Ground Game Act 1880 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
- Text of the Ground Game Act 1880 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
