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Vagrants
any street, road, highway, or other open or public place, at or with any table or instrument of gaming, at any game or pretended game of chance. (10) Every person having in his possession any picklock, etc., … disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labour for not more than one month subject to an appeal to the sessions,
Betting
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 … 17 Vict. c. 119)--as to which see Reg. v. Brown, (1895) 1 QB 119--elaborately provides for suppressing of houses, rooms, offices, or 'places' kept open for the purpose of betting. In Powell v. Kempton Park Racecourse Co.,
Insurance
the insured has not an 'insurable interest,' or expectation of such interest, as being in the nature of gaming or wagering. (English) The Marine Insurance Act, 1745, which it repeals, made provision much to the same effect, … a gross sum or by annual payments, undertakes to indemnify the assured against all loss or damage to houses or other buildings, stock, goods, and merchandise, by fire during a specified period. Insurances against fire are hardly
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Intoxicating liquor
be entered by the police at anytime (s. 81). They are subject to penalties for permitting drunkenness or gaming for harbouring constables or prostitutes, for sale to children under 14 (see CHILDREN), and other offences (ss. 65-85). … as of right in the absence of ground for refusal affecting the character of the licensee or his house. One important distinction, however, between these ante-1869 licences and other existing on-licences is drawn by the Act: the
Gun
(1) persons in the naval, military, or volunteer service in discharge of their duty; (2) licensees to kill game; (3) persons carrying such licensee's gun, by his order and for his use, and giving his name and
Sessions of the peace
the purposes of the (English) Highway Acts, 1835 and 1864, see HIGHWAY; for granting licences to deal in game under 1 & 2 Wm 4, c. 32; for pawnbrokers' certificates under 35 & 36 Vict. c. 93
Rate
saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or rabbits, and of fishing when severed from the occupation of the land; and (3) mines of every … the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to:
Poor laws
saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game or rabbits, and fishing, when severed from the occupation of the land; and (3) mines of every kind … should be raised by' taxation of every inhabitant, parson, vicar, and other, and of every occupier of lands, houses, tithes impropriate, propriations of tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods in the parish.' By the (English) Rating Act,
Raffles
(English) Art Unions Act, 1846, which Act is amended by s. 25. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games and Gaming.,' and see ART UNIONS AND LOTTERY. A form of lottery in which each participant buys one or more … Raffles. Selling any houses, plate, jewels, ships, goods, or other things by way of lottery or by lots, tickets, numbers or figures,
Justices
sessions. (4) The licensing of places for the sale of intoxicating liquor, and of persons to deal in game. As to procedure against juvenile offenders, see Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12),
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