TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED
Notice Cannot be Enforced ACT REPEALED LONG AGO Mr. Justice Mackhmon, at Check r Assizes lately, explained the origin ol the notice “Trespassers will he nro.vruled.- ’ He said that an Act was passed in the x’cign of George 11. making it an offence to trespass after a warning had keen given. Landowner.': all over the la lid put up notices which const: luted a warning. The Ad had long been repealed, but the notice continued, although it could not be enforced. “People know it cannot be enforced ml that is why they do it," the judge added. “I trespass about a week. ’ —~e
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 452, 4 January 1934, Page 6
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