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Lawful Ownership
Of Wildlife Clarified
According to I. T. Quinn, executive director of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, for many years after Virginia became a state the title to wildlife was in the name of the landowner on whose property such wildlife was found. The General Assembly of 1930 was convinced by the State Game Commission that our sys. tern of game ownership, comparable to that prevailing in England under a monarchy, was incompatible in a democratic form of government. Before long, should such a system continue to prevail, the state of Virginia would be without any useful forms of wildlife. The .result was that the General Assembly in 1930 enacted into law, on approval of the Governor, a statute hv which the Commonwealth of Virginia took title to "all wild birds, wild animals, and fish” for the benefit of all thei people of the state. Since that tirrie only the General Assembly, under the Constitution. and the Game Commission, by authority of the legislature, have sole and exclusive authorin’ to enact laws and regulations providing the means, time, manner and extent to which anv given species of wildlife mav be taken and possessed.
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