Category: Law & Criminology
At Common Law what Wagers Illegal, 1–4; Statutes 16 Car. II., and 9 Anne, 4, 5; Betting at Games alone within Statutes, 7–9; whether Contract avoided as well as Security, 9; _bonâ fide_ Indorsee for Value could not sue Acceptor of Bill, 10.
At Common Law what Wagers Illegal, 1–4; Statutes 16 Car. II., and 9 Anne, 4, 5; Betting at Games alone within Statutes, 7–9; whether Contract avoided as well as Security, 9; _bo...
2. CHAPTER II.Barnard’s Act, 7 Geo. II., c. 8, effect of, 87 _et seq._; repeal of, 89; Cases of _Nicholson_ v. _Gooch_ and _ex parte Grant_, 88–92; Official Assignee, _ibid._, receives differ...
3. CHAPTER III.Statutory Provisions respecting, 128; Summary, 132; Foreign Lotteries, 133; Sweepstakes, 134; Companies distributing Benefits by Lot, 136 _et seq._; Test of a Lottery, 140; Baza...
4. CHAPTER IV.Nuisances at Common Law, 149; Houses for Unlawful Games, 151; Unlawful Games, 152; Summary of Statutes, 155–; What constitutes a Gaming House, 155; Private Houses, 157; Public B...
5. CHAPTER I.At Common Law wager-contracts were neither illegal nor void; technically, they could, like any other legal contract, be enforced by an action at law. The only obstacle in the wa...
6. CHAPTER II.It has been deemed advisable to treat of transactions on the Stock Exchange under a separate heading: not that they are, in the main, subject to different statutory provisions;...
7. CHAPTER III.A lottery has been defined to be “a distribution of prizes by lot or chance,” a definition which was accepted as correct by the Court in _Taylor_ v. _Smetten_,[283] but which se...
8. CHAPTER IV.In Bacon’s Abridgment (title “Gaming”) it is stated “that by the Common Law the playing at cards, dice, etc., when innocently practised, and as a recreation the better to fit a...
9. Part I). It would seem that the offence of winning is complete directly16 & 17 Vict., c. 119, after reciting that numerous establishments had been set up for betting houses and for taking money in advance on promises to pay on the events of horse-r...
10. c. 71, section 47, it is provided that all fines paid in London PoliceCourts shall be paid to the Receiver of Police. The question was whether the enactment was superseded by section 8 of 17 & 18 Vict., c. 38. The Court held that it was not; and t...