game-law

That includes, of course, all those words and numbers on shell boxes and in game-law compendiums.

Winchester Sport Glasses: De-Dorking the Middle-Age Gunner 2007

He had wounded it first, and the established native game-law is that the animal belongs to the man who first draws blood; the two legs on one side, by the same law, belonged to us for killing it.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Patrols area to prevent game-law violations, investigates reports of damage to crops and property by wildlife, and compiles biological data.

Discover What You’re Best At Linda Gale 1998

On the contrary I wish them all a happy new year to abuse one another, or visit each of them his nearest neighbour whom he hates, three times a week, because 'the distance is so convenient,' and give great dinners in noble rivalship (venison from the Lord Lieutenant against turbot from London!), and talk popularity and game-law by turns to the tenantry, and beat down tithes to the rector.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

They got a "gang," or, as they called it, a "trot-line," to lay down in the river for catfish, perch, and shovel-nose sturgeon, for there was no game-law then.

The Hoosier School-boy Edward Eggleston 1869

For in July, while the game-law was on, and the young quails were coming on, we were awakened one morning by firing, -- musketry-firing, close at hand.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

For in July, while the game-law was on, and the young quails were coming on, we were awakened one morning by firing, -- musketry-firing, close at hand.

My Summer in a Garden Charles Dudley Warner 1864

'Take care I don't come on you with Mary's lessons to Colonel Bury on the game-law.'

The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

_ -- On the contrary I wish them all a happy new year to abuse one another, or visit each of them his nearest neighbour whom he hates, three times a week, because 'the distance is so convenient,' and give great dinners in noble rivalship (venison from the Lord Lieutenant against turbot from London!), and talk popularity and game-law by turns to the tenantry, and beat down tithes to the rector.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850

It is high time, it seems to me, that a moral game-law were passed for the preservation of the wild and vagrant feelings of human nature.

Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848