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Obsolete

punishment of the stocks (see STOCKS), the provision of the Gaming Act of Henry VIII. (33 Hen. 8, c. 9) (Revised

the same to be contrary to law; and the (English) Gaming Act, 1802 (42 Geo. 3, c. 119), imposes a penalty

by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour

place in which cards, dice, tables or other instruments of gaming are kept or used for the profit or gain of

& 24 Geo. 5, c. 40, and see ANIMALS. Of Game.--The destruction or taking of or possessing eggs of any kind

Rabbit, also termed 'coney' in the (English) Game Act, 1831, ss. 30-32 of which render trespass in the

A three handed card game played with 32 cards of which two constitute the skat

cuniculus, Lat.], a rabbit. See s. 31 of the (English) Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), as

nets, loubels, hare-pipes, gins, snares, or other engines,' for taking game-repealed, with many other Acts, by the Game Act, 1831. See

Lat., fr. colludo, to unite in the same play or game, and thus to unite for the purposes of fraud or