368 IMPOUNDING ; INJURIES ON HIGHWAYS, ETC. 



a "place for betting with persons resorting thereto," persons 

 must "resort" physically to the place. Sending letters and 

 telegrams is not enough. ^^^ In a New Jersey case it was 

 held that a common-law form of indictment for keeping a 

 disorderly house and permitting persons to be and remain 

 in the house betting on horse-races, did not charge a vio- 

 lation of the statute making it an offense to keep a house to 

 which persons may resort for betting upon horse-races, as the 

 statute contemplated the keeping of a place with the intent 

 that persons may resort thither for betting upon horse-races.^-^^ 



A steeple-chase for fifty pounds or upwards is a lawful race 

 vmder the English statutes and evidence was held admissible 

 that "across a country," in sporting phraseology, means over 

 all obstructions and prohibits the rider from availing himself 

 of an open gate.*^^ 



A coupon competition in a newspaper in which the cou- 

 pons are to filled up with the names of horses likely to win, 

 — the prize to be given to the lucky guesser, — is not a lottery 

 or betting.^^^ A list of horses expected to win in a race is 

 not a literary composition which may be copyrighted.^^* A 

 newspaper which excludes racing and betting intelhgence is 

 not a "sporting paper," within the meaning of an agreement 

 framed to protect the copyright of papers specially connected 

 with horse-racing.^^® 



'"Reg. V. Brown, [189S] i Q. B. 119. 



For the meaning of "place" used for betting, see Eastwood v. Miller, 

 L. R. 9 Q. B. 440; Bradford v. Dawson, [1897] i Q. B. 307; Hawke v. 

 Dunn, Ibid. 579; Mclnaney v. Hildredth, Ibid. 600; Liddell v. Lofthouse, 

 [1896] I Q. B. 295; Reg. V. Leigh, 102 L. T. 136; Doggett v. Catterns, 

 19 C. B. N. S. 765; Powell V. Kempton Park Racecourse Co., [1897] 2 

 Q. B. 243, [1899] A. C. 143; Reg. V. Humphrey, [1898] i Q. B. 87s; Reg. 

 V. Hobbs, [1898] 2 Q. B. 647; Kitson v. Ashe, [1899] i Q. B. 425; Brown 

 V. Patch, Ibid. 892. See, also, 41 Sol. Jour. 616. 



'" State V. Ackerman (N. J.), 41 Atl. Rep. 697. 



'"' Evans v. Pratt, 4 Scott N. R. 378. 



^ Stoddart v. Sagar, [1895] 2 Q. B. 474. 



'"Chilton V. Progress P. & P. Co., [1895] 2 Ch. 29. 



""McFarlane v. Hulton, [1899] i Ch. 884. 



