game law

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of game law¹

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

Here Aleck, the head guide, broke the game law, and we became partakers of his crime by eating broiled partridge for supper.

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Given favourable conditions he is almost infallible with the gun, though he gives his game law.

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The society has had printed for free distribution a digest of the recent game law.

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But it seems we are not yet done with the game-law agitation.

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The hard part of the game law of Georgia is the trespass part of it.

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