The Law Magazine and Review: A Quarterly Review of JurisprudenceSaunders and Benning, 1914 - Law |
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... Gaming Act 1802 ( 42 Geo . III , c . 119 ) , and the Lotteries Act 1823 ( 4 Geo . IV , c . 60 ) there are some statutes which both prohibit certain contracts on pain of a penalty and also contain a clause declaring them void , viz ...
... Gaming Act 1802 ( 42 Geo . III , c . 119 ) , and the Lotteries Act 1823 ( 4 Geo . IV , c . 60 ) there are some statutes which both prohibit certain contracts on pain of a penalty and also contain a clause declaring them void , viz ...
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... gaming or betting should be utterly void . The result of which was that even an innocent purchaser for value of such paper money had no remedy . Consequently , this Act of Anne was amended and partly repealed by the Gaming Acts of 1835 ...
... gaming or betting should be utterly void . The result of which was that even an innocent purchaser for value of such paper money had no remedy . Consequently , this Act of Anne was amended and partly repealed by the Gaming Acts of 1835 ...
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... Gaming Act 1835 , 1 was passed in order to amend the Act 9 Anne , c . 14 , inasmuch as that Act had expressly made utterly void all notes , bills , bonds or other securities for money or other valuable thing which was either ( a ) won ...
... Gaming Act 1835 , 1 was passed in order to amend the Act 9 Anne , c . 14 , inasmuch as that Act had expressly made utterly void all notes , bills , bonds or other securities for money or other valuable thing which was either ( a ) won ...
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... Gaming Act of 1835 may be illus- trated from the case of Woolf v . Hamilton . This action was upon a cheque of which the defendant was the drawer , and which had been given by him to the payee in payment of bets lost on horse races ...
... Gaming Act of 1835 may be illus- trated from the case of Woolf v . Hamilton . This action was upon a cheque of which the defendant was the drawer , and which had been given by him to the payee in payment of bets lost on horse races ...
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... Gaming Act 18351 the cheque must be deemed to have been given for an illegal consideration , and therefore the ... gaming itself happens to constitute a police offence , and whether even the game itself is illegal to play at.2 As to what ...
... Gaming Act 18351 the cheque must be deemed to have been given for an illegal consideration , and therefore the ... gaming itself happens to constitute a police offence , and whether even the game itself is illegal to play at.2 As to what ...
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