_La Pêche._--The right of fishing on navigable or floatable rivers belonged only to the King, and he alone could make grants of this right. The Royal Judges alone had the right of judging offences against the right of fishery. There were many _Seigneurs_, however, who exercised the right of fishing in these streams; but they either possessed by concession made by the King, or had usurped it. No person could fish, even with the rod, in non-navigable rivers without permission from the _Seigneur Haut Justicier_ within whose limits they flowed. A judgment (dated April 30th, 1749) condemns a fisherman in a similar case. Even the _Seigneurs_ themselves, however, were obliged, in fishing, to observe the general regulations respecting fisheries. The _Seigneur Haut Justicier_ was enabled to give the right of fishing in his river to tenants in fief, or _à cens_. _La Chasse._--The right of the chase was not allowed to be farmed out like that of fishing. It was a personal right, arising from the consideration that it belonged to the King, and that the nobles themselves could not exercise it, in the interior of their own jurisdiction, without the permission of the King. This doctrine was established in an Ordinance of 1669 (par. 30). The judges of the _Seigneur_ had the power of taking cognisance of all offences against the rights of the chase, except in cases appertaining to _bêtes rousses_ (signifying, it would appear, what were generally called ‘_grosses bêtes_’--stags, does, &c.), which were considered Royal. The right of shooting and hunting was more interdicted to the non-noble than any other. The fee fief of the non-noble did not even bestow it. The King never granted it in his own hunt. So closely observed was this principle, and so rigorous was the right considered, that the _Seigneur_ was not allowed to give any permission to hunt. But still it did constantly occur that _Seigneurs_ granted such permissions not only to nobles but to non-nobles. The _Seigneur Haut Justicier_ possessed the faculty of hunting and shooting on any part of his own jurisdiction, but alone. He was allowed to make regulations and establish prohibitions upon matters appertaining to the chase throughout its extent. Every _Seigneur de Fief_, although not having the feudal power of judicial courts, was allowed to hunt and shoot in any part of his fief. Nobles who possessed neither fief nor jurisdiction were allowed to do so upon the lands belonging to them in the immediate neighbourhood of their dwelling-houses. It was decided that the non-noble possessing a park upon the territory of a _Seigneur Haut Justicier_ was obliged to leave it open for the diversion of the lord. But this judgment was given as long ago as 1668. _Garennes._--Rabbit-warrens could not be established without title-right. Non-nobles, as well as nobles, were allowed to have rabbit-warrens; but the nobles alone were allowed to keep ferrets.