GAME
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Metce. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (in England) hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, and bustards. Brown. Seel & 2 Wm. IV. c. 32. —Game-keeper. One who has the care of keeping and preserving the game on an estate, being appointed thereto by a lord of a manor. —Game-laws. Laws passed for the preservation of game. They: usually forbid the killing of specified game during certain seasons or by certain described means. As to foe ee gameabet see 2 Steph. Comm. 82; 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 82.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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