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Definition :

Gambling, a prize competition for which a solution was prepared beforehand is clearly a gambling prize competition, State of Bombay v. R.M.D. Chaurarabangwala, AIR 1957 SC 699 (707). [Bombay Lotteries and Prize Competitions Control and Tax Act, (54 of 1948), s. (1) (d)]

The act of rising something of value, esp. money, for a chance to win a prize, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 687.