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Lottery

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Lottery

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Bumper draw of a lottery

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Raffles

Raffles. Selling any houses, plate, jewels, ships, goods, or other things by way of lottery or by lots, tickets, numbers or figures, was penalised by s. 36 of the (English) Lottery Act, 1721,

Sweepstakes

entertainments; (s. 24) private lotteries; (s. 25) lotteries of Art Unions. A sweepstake as usually run is a lottery [see Allport v. Nutt, (1845) 14 LJCP 272; Hardwick v. Lanes, (1904) 1 KB 204]; as to the

Chance, Game of

element of matching one horse against another-in Tollett v. Thomas, (1871) LR 6 QB 514. And see GAMING; LOTTERY.

Tickets

of the chance purchased, and it is the purchase of this chance which is the essence of a lottery, Madras High Court in Sesha Ayyar v. Krishna Ayyar, AIR 1936 Mad 225: ILR 59 Mad 562 (FB).

Little goes

Little goes, a species of lottery, declared unlawful, 42 Geo. 3, c. 119

Goods

SC 791. Means every kind of movable property not being newspapers, actionable claims, money stocks, shares securities or lottery tickets and includes live stocks, growing crop, grass and trees and plants including the produce thereof including property

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