Palmistry - Law Dictionary Search Results
Palmistry
Matched in: Term Palmistry
Palmistry
Matched in: Term Palmistry
Discriminal
In palmistry applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm
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Chiromancy
practice of foretelling events or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand palmistry
Palmister
One who practices palmistry
Fortune-tellers
rogues and vagabonds under the Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4. See, further, GYPSIES; PALMISTRY; and VAGRANT.
Gypsies
and use great, subtle, and crafty means to deceive the people, bearing them in hand, that they by palmistry could tell men's and women's fortunes; and so many times by craft and subtilty have deceived the people
Sorcery
sorcery, etc., shall suffer one year's imprisonment on conviction. Persons using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive the people, are rogues and vagabonds, and to be punished with imprisonment and hard
Vagrants
idle and disorderly person. (2) Every person pretending to tell fortunes, or using any craft or device, by palmistry, or otherwise [this includes 'Spiritualism'-Monck v. Hilton, (1877) 2 Ex D 268], to deceive [see R. v. Entwistle,
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