The Ground Game Act 1880 (43 & 44 Vict.) is a law that was passed by the British Parliament

Parliament

A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modeled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French , the action of parler : a parlement is a discussion. The term came to mean a meeting at which...

 in 1880 AD by Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...

's government.

There were many complaints over many decades about the intolerable amount of damage that farmers' crops were suffering from damage by wild rabbit

Rabbit

Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world...

s and hare

Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus. Hares less than one year old are called leverets. Four species commonly known as types of hare are classified outside of Lepus: the hispid hare , and three species known as red rock hares .Hares are very fast-moving...

s and landowners not allowing farmland occupiers to kill them because of game preservation

Game preservation

Game preservation is maintaining a stock of game to be hunted legally. It includes:*Preventing poaching*Preventing losses due to attack by predators.*Encouraging breeding, and sometimes captive breeding for release.-Game preservation in Britain:...

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This law gives land occupiers the unalienable right to kill rabbits and hares on the land which they occupy.