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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 house
Gaming house, Gaming house would mean any house, room, tent etc. whether enclosed or open or any place whatsoever in which the instrument of gaming are kept or used for profits or gains by the person occupying, using or keeping such house, room, tent etc. whether by way of charge or otherwise, M.J. Sivani v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1995 SC 1770 (1772): (1995) 8 SCC 289....
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...
Disorderly houses
Disorderly houses. Houses where persons congreg-ate to the probable disturbance of the peace or other commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour of keeping such houses are encouraged, and see also s. 13 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 3, and the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, s. 3, by which the keeping of bawdy houses is punishable on summary conviction, see Siviour v. Neapolitane, (1931) 1 KB 636; (lessee who sub-let not included); and Winter v. Woolfe, (1931) 1 KB 636 (premises kept for allowing illicit intercourse). See BROTHEL; GAMING....
Common gambling house
Common gambling house, according to the defini-tion means: 'any house' walled enclosure, room or place in which cards, dice, tables or other instruments of gaming are kept or used for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using or keeping such house, enclosure; room or place, whether by way of charge for the use of the instruments of gaming, or of the house enclosure, room or place, or otherwise howsoever. Explana-tion. The wore 'house' includes a tent and all enclosed space', State of Andhra Pradesh v. K. Satyanarayana, AIR 1968 SC 825: (1968) 2 SCR 387. [Hyderabad Gambling Act, 1305F, (2 of 1305F)]...
Cards
Cards. To keep a common house for card-playing is unlawful.-Gaming Houses Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 38); and see GAMING. Cheating at cards is punishable by the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100), s. 17. An excise duty of 3d. a pack-i.e., any quantity not exceeding 52-on home-made cards is levied by 25 & 26 Vict. c. 22, and a customs duty of 3s. 9d. per dozen packs on imported cards by the (English) Customs Tariff Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36)...
Bowling, game of
Bowling, game of, legalized by the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming'), s. 1 of which repeals 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, which Act by s. 16 decreed that labourers, 'servants at husbandry,' fishermen, and others named therein, might not play bowls or other games named therein 'out of Christmas,' and 'in Christmas only in their masters' houses or in their masters' presence.'...
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
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....
Black game
Black game, heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse, is 'game' (see that title) within the (English) Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), by s. 2 of that Act....
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