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hereditaments shall, and he, she and they and his, her and 

 their heirs and assigns is and are hereby made and continued 

 capable to accept and take such estates and interest, and parts 

 therein, in such and the like manner, and to such and the 

 like uses, as he, she or they might, would or could have done 

 by or by virtue or in consequence of any lot, scroll, chance or 

 allotment whatsoever had this present act never been made, 

 any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof notwith- 

 standing. 



12. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. Limitations 

 That if any suit or action shall be commenced or prosecuted ^^ actions, 

 against any person or persons for anything done in j)ursu- 

 ance of this act, every such suit or action shall be commenced 

 within three calendar months next after the fact was com- 

 mitted, and not afterwards ; and shall be laid or brought in 

 the county, city or place where the cause of action shall arise, 

 and not elsewhere ; and the defendant and defendants therein General issue, 

 shall and may plead the general issue, and give this act and 

 the special matter in evidence at the trial to be had there- 

 upon, and that the same was done in pursuance of or by the 

 authority of this act ; [and if the plaintiff or j)laintiffs shall Treble costs, 

 become nonsuited or discontinue his, her or their action or 

 actions, suit or suits, or if upon demurrer judgment shall be 

 given against the plaintiff or plaintiffs, the defendant or de- 

 fendants shall and may recover treble costs, and have like 

 remedy for the same as any defendant or defendants hath or 

 have for costs in any other cases by law] (a). 



13 Geo. II. Cap. 19. 

 An Act to restrain and prevent the excessive Increase of Horse 

 Eaces, and for amending an Act made in the last Sessio?i of' 

 Parliament, intituled " An Act for the more effectual pre- 

 venting of excessive and deceitful Gaming ^ 



9. " And whereas a good and wholesome law was made in 12 Geo. 2, 

 the twelfth year of the reign of his present Majesty King c. 28. 

 George the Second, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual 

 preventing of excessive and deceitful Gaming ;' but contrary 

 to the true intent and meaning thereof, some fraudulent and 

 deceitful games have been invented, and a certain game called 

 j)assage is now daily practised and carried on, to the ruin and Game of 

 impoverishment of many of his Majesty's subjects ;" it is passage, and 

 therefore hereby enacted and declared, that the said game of ° •th'^r^"^^^ 

 passage, and all and every other game and games invented or prohibited, 

 to be invented, loith one or more die or dice, or with any other 

 instrument, engine or device, in the nature of dice, having 

 one or more figures or numbers tliereon {hackga^nmon and the 



{(() Repealed, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 97, s. 2. 

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