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Palmistry

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Palmistry, the practice of telling the character, and assuming to foretell the future, by inspection of the hands. Pretending to tell fortunes or deceiving 'by palmistry or otherwise' renders the palmist liable to conviction as a rogue and vagabond. See R. v. Entwistle, (1899) 1 QB 846, and VAGRANT.

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