game law

American  

noun

1. a law enacted for the preservation of game, as by restricting the number and kinds of game that may be taken and by designating periods of the year when specified game may be taken.

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Etymology

Origin of game law

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

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

Few ever wanted to hunt with bows and arrows, and the game law happened to be worded in a way that specified that big game might be taken only with a certain type of firearm.

From Time Magazine Archive

We might have had a smoking haunch of venison that morning, but it would have lacked that fine moral quality which the game law withheld.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey