Law Of Field Sports: A Summary Of The Rules Of Law Affecting American Sportsmen (1886)

""The Law of Field Sports"" is a comprehensive guide to the legal rules that affect American sportsmen. Written by George Putnam Smith and originally published in 1886, this book covers a wide range of topics related to hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities. The book provides a summary of the laws governing these sports, including regulations related to hunting licenses, game seasons, bag limits, and other important information. It also includes information on property rights, trespassing, and liability issues that may arise when participating in field sports. This book is an essential resource for anyone who enjoys hunting, fishing, or other outdoor activities and wants to ensure that they are complying with the relevant legal requirements.Nothing can be learned of George Putnam Smith personally from major biographic and bibliographical sources. However, he was a lawyer for he identifies himself as being a member of the New York Bar. Probably he was also a sportsman.The full title of Smith�������s small work is The Law of Field Sports, A Summary of the Rules of Law Affecting American Sportsmen. In his Preface, Smith advises: �������The object of this little book is to provide the American sportsman with a succinct statement of the rules of law affecting him in the acquisition of his outfit and in the pursuit of game. As the country becomes thickly settled and the land is more generally cultivated or inclosed, the liberty which the sportsman has hitherto enjoyed of hunting or fishing where he chose is being restricted, and a knowledge of the legal limits of private land, of the rights of the owner and of the law of trespass, becomes more and more important.�������--Henry M. Reeves.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.