Gaming Or Gambling - Law Dictionary Search Results

Macco

A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century...

Hazardry

Playing at hazard gaming gambling...

Faro

A gambling game at cards in which all the other players play against the dealer or banker staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack...

A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table usually under a cup and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four...

Crack loo

A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor...

Brelan

A French gambling game somewhat like poker...

bingo

a game commonly used for low stakes gambling in which numbered balls or slips are drawn at random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards called Bingo cards which have square arrangement of such numbers Each card has a different arrangement of the numbers and the first player to cover all numbers in one row horizontal vertical or diagonal is the winner usually announcing that fact by a cry of ldquoBingordquo...

Russian roulette

An act of bravado played by loading one bullet into one chamber of a revolver in which the cylinder has five or six positions spinning the cylinder thus moving the bullet randomly to one of the six positions of the cylinder pointing the gun to ones head and pulling the trigger If the bullet is in firing position the player is usually killed Such a game may be played on a dare or in some places as part of a gamble...

Policy Proof of Interest (P.P.I.) (English)

Policy Proof of Interest (P.P.I.) (English). A policy of marine insurance which was made valid by its terms, although the insurer had no insurable interest. Such a policy in the absence of an insur-able interest is made void by the Gaming Act, 1845. The Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (s. 4), specifically declares such policies void. The Marine Insurance (Gambling Policies) Act, 1909, makes it an offence to effect a contract of marine insurance without an insurable interest....

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...

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