GAME

1. Birds and 1beasts ot a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Mete. (Ma .) 79. The term is said to include (in England) hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, and bustards. Brown. ·See 1· & 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 pa ed for the preservation of game. They usually forbid the killing of specified game du.ring certain seasons or by certain described means. As to English game laws, see 2 Steph. Comm. 82; 1 & 2 Wm. IV. c. 32. 2. A sport or pastime, played with cards, dice, or other appliances or contrivances. ·see GAMING. -Game of chance. One In which the result, as to succe or failure, depends le upon the skill and experience of the player than upon purely fortuitous or accidental circumstances, incidental to the game or the manner of playing it or the device or apparatus with whi,ch it is played but not under the control of the 1 player. a game of skfll, on the other hand, although the element of chance nece arily cannot be entirely eliminated, is one in which succe depends principally upon the superior knowledge, attention, experii!nce, and skill of the player, whereby the elements of luck or chance in the game are overcome, improved, or turned to his advantage. People v. Lavin, 179 N. Y. 164, 71 N. E. 753, 66 L. R. A. 601; Stearnes v. State, 21 Tex. 692; Harle v. U. S., Morris (Iowa) 172; Worth am v. State, 59 Mi . 182; State v. Gupton, 30 N. _c. 271. [s. 540]