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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...
Art unions
Art unions, 'voluntary associations for the purchase of paintings, drawings, and other works of art to be distributed by chance or otherwise amongst the members.' So defined by the Art Union Act, 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 48), which legalizes the distribution by chance (provided a royal charter incorporating the association shall have been obtained), which would otherwise be illegal under the Lottery Act. As to the rules of the Art Union of London, see Savoy Overseers v. Art Union of London, 1896 AC 296....
Raffle
A kind of lottery in which several persons pay in shares the value of something put up as a stake and then determine by chance as by casting dice which one of them shall become the sole possessor...
Lottery
A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance esp a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes and the rest of the tickets are blanks...
Bunko
A kind of swindling game or scheme originally by means of cards or by a sham lottery but now used for any swindling tactic...
rank order number
rank order number The number that Kentucky Consular Center gives to the entries of DV Program (lottery) as the computer selects them. The first entries chosen have the lowest numbers. The Visa Office of the Department of State gives winning entries a chance to apply for immigration according to their rank order number for their region. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
diversity visa program
diversity visa program The Department of State has an annual lottery for immigration to the United States. Up to 55,000 immigrants can enter the United States each year from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. See the U.S. Department of State program information. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
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 s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845, and the (English) Gaming Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 9). The latter statute gets rid of the decision in Real v. Anderson, (1884) 13 QBD 779; and see Tatam v. Reeve, (1893) 1 QB 44; and De Mattos v. Benjamin, (1894) 70 LT 560. In the case of a cheque given in payment of a gaming transaction the combined effect of s. 1 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 14), and ss. 1 and 2 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1835, was that if it was paid to any indorsee or holder, the amount so paid could be recovered by the drawer from the payee, Dey v. Mayo, (1920) 2 KB 346; Sutters v. Briggs, (1922) 1 AC 1. The Gaming Act, 1922, does away with this position.The (English) Betting Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 119)--as to which see Reg. v. Brown, (1895) 1 QB 119--elaborately provides for suppressing of houses, rooms...
Betting and gambling
Betting and gambling, The expression 'betting and gambling' in List II, Entry 34 of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution includes conduct of lotteries, J.K. Bharati v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1984 SC 1542: (1984) 3 SCC 704: (1985) 1 SCR 201....
Commission, the promoter's
Commission, the promoter's, means the amount by which the aggregate total stakes in all the competitions exceeds the sum of (1) the aggregate prize in the competitions; (2) the aggregate pool betting duty payable in respect of the competitions; and (3) the expenses of the promoter actually incurred by him in the conduct of the competitions, excluding any expenses properly chargeable to capital and any interest on borrowed money, and in particular, excluding any provision for the depreciation of building or equipment, any emoluments payable to the promoter, or, if the promoter is a partnership, to any of the partners, or, if the promoter is a body corporate, to any of the directors, and in any case any emoluments payable to any person whose emoluments depends to any extent on the profits of the promoter, Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1963, s. 4(3), Sch. 2, para 23(2) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(1), para 116, p. 84....
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