JUDGE’S WEEKLY TRESPASS
CANNOT BE PROSECUTED. Mr Justice Mackinnon, at Chester Assizes recently, explained the origin of the notice “Trespassers will be prosecuted.” He said that an Act was passed in the reign of George 11. making it an offence to trespass after a- warninghad been given. Landowners all over the land put up notices which constituted a warning. The Act had long been repealed, but the notice continued, although it could not be enforced. People know it cannot be enforced and that is why they do it,” ho added. “I trespass about once a week.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19331220.2.10
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1933, Page 2
Word Count
96JUDGE’S WEEKLY TRESPASS Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1933, Page 2
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.