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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 398 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OWLING , in See also:

English See also:law, the offence of transporting See also:wool or See also:sheep out of the See also:kingdom,,to the detriment of the See also:staple manufacture of wool. The name is said to owe its origin to the fact that the offence was usually carried on at See also:night-See also:time, when the owls were abroad. The offence was stringently regulated by a See also:statute of See also:Edward III. (1336-7), while many subsequent statutes also dealt with it. In 1566 the offence was made punish-able by the cutting off of the See also:left See also:hand and nailing it in a public See also:place. By a statute of r66o the See also:ship and See also:cargo were to be forfeited. In the reign of See also:George I. (1717–1718) the See also:penalty was altered to transportation for seven years. The offence was abolished in 1824.

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