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Ch. 12.
Wrongs.
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harraſs and diſtreſs the plaintiff. The other exception is by ſtatute 4 & 5 W. &. M. c. 23. which gives full coſts againſt any inferior tradeſman, apprentice, or other diſſolute perſon, who is convicted of a treſpaſs in hawking, hunting, fiſhing, or fowling upon another’s land. Upon this ſtatute it has been adjudged, that if a perſon be an inferior tradeſman, as a clothier for inſtance, it matters not what qualification he may have in point of eſtate; but, if he be guilty of ſuch treſpaſs, he ſhall be liable to pay full coſts[1].

  1. Lord Raym. 149.