game law
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of game law
First recorded in 1705–15
Example Sentences
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In the Vegas game, law enforcement says organizers deployed a rigged shuffling machine that they had secretly tampered with to ensure their success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Mark Methenitis, an attorney who has long chronicled issues in video game law, said that society is not yet at the point where virtual assaults should be considered criminal.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2016
Gunners Van Devanter and Phillips had just settled themselves in a blind beside Occoquan Bay when up rowed Federal Deputy Game Warden George King and a Virginia State warden, looking for game law violators.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because fewer ducks are winging South each season, the Foundation has been inclined to discount the importance of overshooting, modern firearms, lax game law enforcement as causes of duck decline.
From Time Magazine Archive
It also contains the first game law, protecting "salmons."
From Popular Law-making by Stimson, Frederic Jesup
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