Badger Game - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Badger, means any number of the species Meles meles, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., Para 352, p. 163.Badger [fr. baggage, Fr., a bundle, or fr. bladier, Fr., a corn-dealer, Wedgw.], a person who buys corn or victuals in one place, and carries them to another to sell and make profit by them. 5 Eliz. C. 12 empowered magistrates to license badgers for one year, upon their entering into certain recognizances. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 24 abolished the offence of badgering, and repealed the statutes passed in relation to it, as being pernicious and in restraint of trade....
Badger sett
Badger sett, connotes a system of tunnels and chambers, constructed and currently used by a badger or badgers and the entrance holes to those tunnels and chambers, but does not include the area upto and including the surface area above that system, Director of Public Prosecutions v. Green, (2001) 1 WLR 805 (QB).Means any structure of place which displays signs indicating current use by a badger, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, 4th Edn., Para 163....
Badger game
The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure...
Game
Game [fr. gaman, Sax.], all sorts of birds and beasts that are objects of the chase. The term is defined by the Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as including for the purposes of that Act 'hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor-game, black game, and bustards'; but some of its provisions are directed to trespass in pursuit of woodcocks, snipes, quails, land rails, and coneys.At Common Law game belongs to a tenant and not to a landlord, but leases frequently contain a reservation of the game to the landlord, and before the Game Act, 1831, the right to kill game was restricted to freeholders having 100l. a year freehold, or leaseholders having a 99 years' leasehold of 150l. a year, etc. This Act repeals the (English) Qualification Act of 22 & 23 Car. 2, c. 25, and (after giving the game to landlords in the case of leases made before the Act for less than 21 years-a provision now expired) protects reservations of game by penal provisions. The Act also requires all persons k...
Gaming or gambling
Gaming or gambling, the playing any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth.The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards, or any unlawful games, under penalties of 40s. for every day of so keeping the house, and 6s. 8d. for every time of playing therein; and the (English) Gaming Act, 1738 (12 Geo. 2, c. 28) (applied by the Gaming Act, 1739 (13 Geo. 2, c. 19), to all games with dice, except backgammon, and by the (English) Gaming Act, 1744 (18 Geo. 2, c. 34), to 'roulet, otherwise roly-poly'), declares hazard and other games to be lotteries, so that the keepers of tables for them are liable to penalties under the (English) Lotteries Act, 1721 (8 Geo. 1, c. 2), the (English)Lotteries Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 6), and the Lotteries Act, 1698 (10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17); the system ofincorporation of previous statutes by referencebeing carried very far in gaming legislation.Gaming in Public-houses, etc.--Sect. 79 of the (E...
Badgerer
One who badgers...
Badgering
The act of one who badgers...
Badger legged
Having legs of unequal length as the badger was thought to have...
Common gaming house
Common gaming house, 'common gaming house' means--(i) in the case of gaming--(a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of the number used is stating such price, or(b) on the amount of variation in the market price of any such commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating the amount of such variation, or(c) on the market price of any stock or share or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or(d) on the occurrence or non-occurrence of rain or other natural event, or(e) on the quantity of rainfall or on the digits of the number used in stating such quantity, or(f) on the pictures, digits or figures of one or more playing cards or other documents or objects bearing numbers, or on the total of such digits or figures, or on the basis of the occurrence or non-occurrence of any uncertain future event, or on the result of any draw, or on the basis of the sequence or any permutation or combination of such pictures, digits, figures, n...
Gaming
Gaming, it is the act or practice of gambling on a game of chance. It is staking on chance where chance is the controlling factor, K.R. Lakshmanan (Dr.) v. State of T.N., AIR 1996 SC 1153 (1165): (1996) 2 SCC 226. [T.N. Gaming Act, (3 of 1930), s. 11]Gaming is an inclusive definition which includes a game of chance and skill combined or a pretended game of chance or of chance and skill combined. M.J. Sivani v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1995 SC 1770 (1772): (1995) 8 SCC 289....
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