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Gaming or gambling

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,

Frauds, Statute of

and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used to say of it, that 'every line was worth a subsidy,' and it has been said that at all events the explanation of every line has cost

Receiving order

bankruptcy will be void against a purchaser of a legal estate in good faith for money or money's worth without notice of an available act of bankruptcy under a conveyance made after the date of registration of

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Gift, 'transfer of property

of movable or immovable property; such transfer has to be voluntary and without consideration in money or money's worth. What is, therefore, absolutely essential for the purposes of a gift is a transfer of property. 'Transfer of

Restrictive Covenant

completion of the purchase, shall be void against a purchaser of the (servient) land for money or money's worth. See also REGISTRATION OF LAND and PRIORITY NOTICE. As to extinction or modification of these covenants, see Law

Window tax

Window tax, a tax on windows, levied on houses which contained more than six windows, and were worth more than 5l. per annum; established by 7 Wm. 3, c. 18. The 14 & 15 Vict. c.

Wages

1936, s. 2 (vi)] Sir William Anson's definition of 'wager' as a promise to give money or money's worth upon the determination or ascertainment of an uncertain event accurately brings out the concept of wager declared void

Value

(English) Lord Tenterden's Act (9 Geo. 4, c. 14), s. 7, which substituted 'value' for 'price.' The monetary worth or price of something; the amount of goods, services, or money that something will command in an exchange,

Twelfhindi

at 1200s. If any injury were done to such persons, satisfaction was to be made according to their worth.

Thrymsa

Thrymsa, a Saxon coin worth fourpence, Du Fresne.

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