Game Laws

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

laws relating to the killing of certain wild animals pursued for sport, and called game. Formerly in Great Britain certain qualifications of rank or property were needed to constitute the right to kill game; but by the Game Act of William IV. the necessity for any qualification except the possession of a game certificate was abolished. Night poaching is a graver offense; any person found guilty of trespassing in pursuit of game between the first hour after sunset and the last before sunrise, is for the first offense liable to imprisonment with hard labor for three months and to find security for a year, a third offense_involving liability to penal servitude. By an act of 1880 every occupier of land has a right, as inseparable from and incident to the occupation of the land, to kill and take ground game (hares and rabbits) thereon, concurrently with any other duly authorized person, all agreements in contravention of this right being declared void. Game laws of greater or less strictness are in force in many other countries. In Canada and the United States the chief restrictions are in regard to killing wild animals during the breeding season. GANDAK (gun-dak') (the Great Gandak; the Little Gandak being an unimportant tributary of the Gogra) a river of India, rising in the Nepal Himalayas, in lat. 30°56′ N. and lon. 79° 7' E., flowing S. W. to British territory, and then S. E., forming for some distance the boundary between the Northwest provinces and Bengal, and entering the Ganges opposite Patna.