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Gaming or gambling

Kingdom Totalisator Co., (1935) 1 Ch 373 (as to advertisement of football pool on credit); WAGER; BETTING; and LOTTERY; and see Chitty's Statutes, tit.'Game and Gaming.' Consult Coldridge and Hawksford, Law of Gambling.

Bazaar

provisions of the (English) Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5), s. 23. See MARKET; LOTTERY.

Art unions

(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

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Raffle

A kind of lottery in which several persons pay in shares the value of something put up as a stake and then

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...

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

Betting

repealed except as to Northern Ireland) dealing with bets made with persons under seventeen). The (English) Betting and Lotteries Act,1934, amends the law regarding betting on tracks. It permits the establishment of the totalisator on dog racecourses

Betting and gambling

'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

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.

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