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Page 22 - For as customs owe their original to common consent, their being immemorially disputed, either at law or otherwise, is a proof that such consent was wanting. 4. Customs must be reasonable (I); or rather, taken negatively, they must not be unreasonable.
Page 60 - A statute,! which treats of things or persons of an inferior rank, cannot by any general words be extended to those of a superior. So a statute treating of " deans, prebendaries, parsons, vicars, and others having spiritual promotion...
Page 5 - Example (which is the best proof) may sway any thing, I know no sort of Men less subject to Melancholy than Anglers ; many have cast off other Recreations and embraced it, but I never knew any Angler wholly cast off (though occasions might interrupt) their Affections to their beloved Recreation ; and if this Art may prove a noble brave rest to my Mind, 'tis all the Satisfaction I covet.
Page 21 - THAT it have been used so long, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Page 11 - Reclined their weary limbs : hard by were laid Baskets, and all their implements of trade, Rods, hooks, and lines, composed of stout horse-hairs, And nets of various sorts, and various snares, The seine, the cast-net, and the wicker maze, To waste the watery tribes a thousand ways : A crazy boat was drawn upon a plank : Mats were their pillow, wove of osier dank ; Skins, caps, and rugged coats, a covering made : This was their wealth, their labour, and their trade.
Page 8 - Another haunts the shoar, to feed on foam : Another round about the Rocks doth roam, Nibbling on Weeds : another, hating theeving, Eats nought at all, of liquor only living ; For, the salt humor of his Element Servs him, alone, for perfect nourishment. Some love the clear streams of swift tumbling torrents, Which through the rocks straining their struggling currents...
Page 32 - One may have a manor and another the right of fishing in the water ; but if a man would claim a right of fishing in the water of another, the proof of the right lies upon him. In Warren v. Matthews, 6 Mod. 73. 1 Salk. 357. SC Holt, Ch. J., says, " Every subject of common right may fish with lawful nets in a navigable river as well as in the sea ; and the king's grant cannot bar him thereof.
Page 14 - ... though the making such grants, and by that means appropriating what seems to be unnatural to restrain, the use of running water, was prohibited for the future by King John's great charter; and the rivers that were fenced in his time were directed to be laid open, as well as the forests to be disafforested.
Page 41 - Now with the rapid current he contends, Large draughts of water swallows, and extends His feeble arms, but, hoping most to gain By pray'rs success, he vows but vows in vain. His breathless body, floating down the brook, Great Jove beheld, and kind compassion took:
Page 9 - In Spring the Male with Love's soft flames inspir'd, And in defiance of the Water fir'd, Can scarce perceive* the change ; and, big with young, A num'rous breed the Female bears along! Now o'er the neighb'ring Streams extend your Nets, And throw your Lines, well furnish'd with deceits ; Join scarlet Colours, which, expos'd to view, Fish thro' the water greedily pursue; And as a skilful Fowler, Birds employs, Which, by their well-known Voice and treach'rous noise, Allure their Fellows and invite to...