378 RACING, WAGEES AND GAMING. 



ficient for tliat piu'pose ;" and enacted, that all moi'tgages 

 and securities, where the consideration was for money 

 won by Graming or Betting, or for repayment of money 

 lent at Gaming or Betting, were to be void ; that all 

 property so encumbered was to devolve to such person as 

 would have been entitled to it in case the owner were 

 dead ; and that all grants or conveyances made to prevent 

 this were to be deemed fraudulent and void (/). 



The loser of 10/. or upAvards by playing or betting at 

 any Grame might sue for the money so lost within three 

 months ; and if he did not sue mthin that time any other 

 person might do so, and recover treble the value, one 

 moiety to go to the informer and the other to the poor of 

 the parish where the oifence was committed {g) ; any 

 person winning by fraud by betting or playing at any 

 Grame, or any person winning above 10/. at one sitting, 

 might be indicted, and on conviction forfeit five times the 

 value so won, and if he had cheated, be deemed infamous, 

 and suffer such corporal punishment as in eases of wilful 

 perjury (70. _ 



Two Justices might cause persons suspected of having 

 no visible estate or calling, and who appeared to support 

 themselves by Gaming, to be brought before them, and 

 find sureties for their good behavioiu' for the space of 

 twelve months (/) ; clming which time, if they played or 

 betted to the amount of twenty shillings at any one time 

 or sitting, they were to forfeit their recognizances {j) ; 

 and any person assaulting or challenging another on ac- 

 count of money won at play was to forfeit all his goods, 

 and be imprisoned two years (/»■). But this Act was not 

 to prevent Graming in any of the Queen's Palaces duiing 

 her residence there (/). The word " Games " used in this 

 Act was held to comprehend Horse Races {m) and other 

 Games mentioned in 16 Car. 2, c. 7, and therefore any 

 race for 10/. a- side or upwards was illegal. In this Eeign 

 two Acts were passed to enforce 10 & 11 Will. 3, c. 17, 

 with regard to Lotteries {)i). 

 Eeign of In a.d. 1721, and the following year of the Reign of 



(/) 9 Anne, c. 14, s. 1. {m) Blaxton v. Pijc, 1 Wils. 309 ; 



[g) Ibid. s. 2; FredericJc, Bart. Cla>/toii v. Jc>i?iiii(/s, 2 W.Bla. 706. 

 v. Zool-xp, 4 'Burr. 2018. (;/) These -were 9 Anne, g. 6, ss. 



(/() Ibid. s. 5. 56, 57, now virtually repealed; and 



(j) Ibid. s. 6. 10 Anne, c. 26, s. 109, repealed by 



(J) Ibid. s. 7. 49 Geo. 3, c. 109, and 1 & 2 Will. 4, 



{/>■) Ibid. s. S. c. 36. 

 (/) Ibid. s. 9. 



