Ground Game Act 1880
| Act of Parliament | |
| Long title | An Act for the better protection of Occupiers of Land against injury to their Crops from Ground Game. |
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| Citation | 43 & 44 Vict. c. 47 |
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 7 September 1880 |
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Status: Current legislation | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Text of the Ground Game Act 1880 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. | |
The Ground Game Act 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 47) is a law that was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom 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.
This law 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]
External links
- Text of the Ground Game Act 1880 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.
References
- ^ 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.