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A hunting license is a regulatory or legal mechanism to control recreational and sports hunting. Hunting may be regulated informally by unwritten law, self-restraint, a moral code, or by governmental laws.〔National Shooting Sports Foundation, ''The Ethical Hunter'', brochure p. 6, March 2003, site at ()〕 The purposes for requiring hunting licenses include the protection of natural treasures, and raising tax revenue (often, but not always, to dedicated funds). ==History== Hunting licenses are millennia old. Amongst the first hunting laws in the Common law tradition was from the time of William the Conqueror (reign in England starting 1066). In the ''Peterborough Chronicle'' entry of 1087, The Rime of King William reported in verse that: ''Whoever killed a hart or a hind'' ''Should be blinded.'' 〔Seth Lerner, ''Inventing English: A Portable History of the English Language", p. 43 (Columbia U. Press 2007), citing Cecily Clark, ''The Peterborough Chronicle'' (2nd ed. Clarenden Press 1970).〕 This was because "William the Conqueror's moral life lives in the landscape. His control of the forest mirrors his control of the people, and his establishment of hunting laws reveals the dissonance between his love for animals and his contempt for the populace: ...〔Old English text here is removed.〕 ''He loved the wild animals'' ''As if he were their father.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hunting license」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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