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Betting. For definition and for s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), see WAGER.Bets are irrecoverable at law by virtue of s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845, and the (English) Gaming Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 9). The latter statute gets rid of the decision in Real v. Anderson, (1884) 13 QBD 779; and see Tatam v. Reeve, (1893) 1 QB 44; and De Mattos v. Benjamin, (1894) 70 LT 560. In the case of a cheque given in payment of a gaming transaction the combined effect of s. 1 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 14), and ss. 1 and 2 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1835, was that if it was paid to any indorsee or holder, the amount so paid could be recovered by the drawer from the payee, Dey v. Mayo, (1920) 2 KB 346; Sutters v. Briggs, (1922) 1 AC 1. The Gaming Act, 1922, does away with this position.The (English) Betting Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 119)--as to which see Reg. v. Brown, (1895) 1 QB 119--elaborately provides for suppressing of houses, rooms...
Coupon betting
Coupon betting, means the making of bets in pursuance of an invitation which offers stated odds for a choice of bets, being bets of a description not commonly made without such an invitation, unless made by way of pool betting and not of a description commonly made by means of a totalisator, Betting and Gaming Duties Act, 1981, s. 11 (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), para 175, p. 126....
Racecourse Betting Control Board
Racecourse Betting Control Board. A board appointed under (English) Racecourse Betting Act, 1928, for the control of totalisators on approved racecourses. It consists of a chairman appointed by the Home Secretary, and eleven members, one of whom is appointed by the Home Secretary, one by the Secretary of State for Scotland, and one by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries; one by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the remainder by certain racing organisations. The (English) Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934, s. 18, amends the powers of the Board and interprets certain sections which give rise to doubts. This power of authorising a person to set up a totalisator is limited to giving such authority to the persons having the management of the racecourse....
Street betting
Street betting. The suppression of this is provided for by the (English) Street Betting Act, 1906. See BETTING....
Bet
Bet, means something staked on the outcome of a contingency. Often used as a synonym for wager. It does not include a stake hazarded in the course of gaming, City Index v. Leslie, (1991) 3 All ER 180.Bet, is the staking of money or other value on the event of a doubtful issue, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), 4th Edn., Para 2, p. 4....
Betting and gambling
Betting and gambling, The expression 'betting and gambling' in List II, Entry 34 of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution includes conduct of lotteries, J.K. Bharati v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1984 SC 1542: (1984) 3 SCC 704: (1985) 1 SCR 201....
Betting transaction
Betting transaction, includes the collection or payment of winning on a bet and any transaction in which one or more of the parties is acting as bookmaker, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Vol. 4(1), 4th Edn., Para 45, p. 30....
Joint-tenancy
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...
joint and several
joint and several : relating or belonging to two or more parties together and separately [joint and several duties of the partners] see also joint and several liability at liability compare in solido, joint, jointly joint·ly and sev·er·al·ly adv ...
Hindu joint family and coparcenary
Hindu joint family and coparcenary, a hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor, and includes their wives an unmarried daughters. A Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than the joint family: it includes only those person who acquire by birth an interest in the joint or coparcenary property, these being the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of the holder of the joint property for the time being. Therefore there may be a joint Hindu family consisting of a single male member and widows of deceased coparceners, Gowli Buddanna v. CIT, AIR 1966 SC 1523 (1525): (1966) 3 SCR 224. [Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922), s. 3]...
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