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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1915 quote.

See: hunting ground(s),hunting tract

Quotations

1915

These hunting "lots" or territories . . . are more or less fixed tracts of country whose boundaries are determined by certain rivers, ridges, lakes, or other natural landmarks, such as swamps and clumps of cedars or pines. Hunting outside of one's inherited territory was punishable occasionally by death.

1935

. . . murder called for a compensating life unless the deed were compounded with goods or hunting territory.