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Racecourse. By the Racecourse Licensing Act, 1879, no metropolitan suburban racecourse (i.e., no racecourse within ten miles of Charing Cross) is allowed without an annual licence from the justices of the peace, which may be granted at any Michaelmas Quarter Sessions. The (English) Racecourse Betting Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 41), legalises the use of totalisators on certain racecourses....
bookmaker
bookmaker : a person who determines odds and receives and pays off bets called also bookie ...
Bazaar
Bazaar-(1) daily market or market-place; (2) a place for the sale of miscellaneous goods for no profits to the sellers but for the purpose of raising funds for some charitable purpose. These sales are exempt from the Shops Acts, 1912 and 1913 (see SHOP), and from the provisions of the (English) Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5), s. 23. See MARKET; LOTTERY....
Hedger
One who makes or mends hedges also one who hedges as in betting...
Bucket shop
An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks petroleum etc...
Bettor
One who bets a better...
Stakeholder
Stakeholder, one with whom a stake is deposited [see, generally, (English) Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 58)]. As to when money deposited in the hands of a stakeholder, to abide the event of a wager, may be recovered, see Gaming Act, 1845, s. 18, and the title WAGER. A stakeholder of a sealed packet containing a document can be called upon to produce it upon a subp'na duces tecum, R. v. Daye, (1908) 2 KB 333. Upon a sale of land a sake-holder appears to hold the deposit for the party entitled thereto. He may interplead under R.S.C. Ord. LVII., and is entitled to retain the interest on the deposit for his pains: see Mr. Cyprian Williams in 71 L.J. (articles), pp. 162 and 180-Wolst. & Ch. Conveyancing Statutes, 12th Edn., p. 724. Apart from a special stipulation, it is not clear that a stakeholder converting the deposit into the property of either party before determination of the event is not acting in contradiction of his mandate. See INTRPLEADER.A disinterested t...
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