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Game [fr. gaman, Sax.], all sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as including for the purposes of that Act 'hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor-game, black game, and bustards'; but some of its provisions are directed to trespass in pursuit of woodcocks, snipes, quails, land rails, and coneys.At Common Law game belongs to a tenant and not to a landlord, but leases frequently contain a reservation of the game to the landlord, and before the Game Act, 1831, the right to kill game was restricted to freeholders having 100l. a year freehold, or leaseholders having a 99 years' leasehold of 150l. a year, etc. This Act repeals the (English) Qualification Act of 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25, and (after giving the game to landlords in the case of leases made before the Act for less than 21 years-a provision now expired) protects reservations of game by penal provisions. The Act also requires all persons k...
Common gaming house
Common gaming house, 'common gaming house' means--(i) in the case of gaming--(a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of the number used is stating such price, or(b) on the amount of variation in the market price of any such commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating the amount of such variation, or(c) on the market price of any stock or share or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or(d) on the occurrence or non-occurrence of rain or other natural event, or(e) on the quantity of rainfall or on the digits of the number used in stating such quantity, or(f) on the pictures, digits or figures of one or more playing cards or other documents or objects bearing numbers, or on the total of such digits or figures, or on the basis of the occurrence or non-occurrence of any uncertain future event, or on the result of any draw, or on the basis of the sequence or any permutation or combination of such pictures, digits, figures, n...
Black game
Black game, heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse, is 'game' (see that title) within the (English) Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), by s. 2 of that Act....
To game
To game, is to play any game, whether of skill or chance, for money or money's worth. It is playing of the game for money or money's worth whether the game be or be not lawful, M.J. Sivani v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1995 SC 1770 (1772): (1995) 6 SCC 289....
Game certificate
Game certificate, the expression used to designate a game licence (q.v.) in Acts prior to the (English) Game Licences Act, 1860...
Game licence
Game licence. A licence issued under the (English) Game Licence Act, 1860 (as amended by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1883, ss. 4-6), which authorizes the holder to kill game, woodcock, snipe, quail or landrail, rabbits or deer, during open seasons. Failure to comply with this provision makes the offender liable to a penalty of 20l. See FIRE ARMS...
Gaming house
Gaming house, Gaming house would mean any house, room, tent etc. whether enclosed or open or any place whatsoever in which the instrument of gaming are kept or used for profits or gains by the person occupying, using or keeping such house, room, tent etc. whether by way of charge or otherwise, M.J. Sivani v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1995 SC 1770 (1772): (1995) 8 SCC 289....
Day time (game)
Day time (game), runs from the beginning of the last hour before sunrise to the expiration of the first hour after sunset, Game Act, 1831, s. 34 (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 272, p. 116....
Ground Game Act
Ground Game Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 41), and Ground Game (Amendment) Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 21), giving to occupiers concurrent rights with owners to kill hares and rabbits. See HARES...
Gameful
Full of game or games...
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