game-laws

“King Kulayb,” who established game-laws in his dominions and would allow no man to approach his camp-fire.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The only game-laws in the interior are, that the man who first wounds an animal, though he has inflicted but a mere scratch, is considered the killer of it; the second is entitled to a hind quarter, and the third to a fore leg.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

As we were now in the country of stringent game-laws, we were obliged to send all the way back to Nyampungo, to give information to a certain person who had been left there by the real owner of this district to watch over his property, the owner himself living near the Zambesi.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

When abreast of the high wooded island Kalabi we came in contact with one of the game-laws of the country, which has come down from the most ancient times.

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

They must, however, give certain quantities of cloth to a number of inferior chiefs beside, and they are subject to the game-laws.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

I was not very desirous to have one of these animals killed, for we understood that when we passed Mpende we came into a country where the game-laws are strictly enforced.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Partridges and pheasants are tolerably abundant; the island is much too English not to be subject to strict game-laws.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Partridges and pheasants are tolerably abundant; the island is much too English not to be subject to strict game-laws.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

In the duke of Athol's seventy-mile forest, with scarce a tree save planted larches, the stag roams by thousands, but of course the game-laws interpose, as they did eight hundred years ago, between him and the (biped) hind.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various

They are vigorously hunted by men and dogs on account of the delicate flavor of their flesh, and it has been thought necessary to place them under the protection of the game-laws.

Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various