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EACING, WAGEES AND GAMING. 



Betting and 

 Loans (In- 

 fants) Act, 

 1892. 



Gaming Act, 

 1892. 



horse, mare, or gelding, or against time, for any prize of 

 what nature or kind soever, or for any bet or wager made 

 or to he made in respect of any such horse, mare, or gelding, 

 or the riders thereof, and at which more than twenty 

 persons shall he present," proceeds (section 2) to declare all 

 horse races unlawful within ten miles of Charing Cross 

 unless licensed pursuant to the provisions contained in 

 sections 3 and 4 of the Act. The Act also imposes certain 

 penalties on persons convicted of taking part in unlicensed 

 horse races, and on the owners and occupiers of the ground 

 where the unlicensed horse races take place ; and (section 7) 

 enacts that every horse race held or taking place in con- 

 travention of the provisions of the Act shall he deemed to 

 he a nuisance, and shall he liable accordingly (c). 



The 55 Vict. c. 4, renders penal the sending documents 

 to infants inciting them to betting or wagering. The pro- 

 visions of this statute, so far as it deals with this subject, 

 will he found fully set outpost, Chapter V. 



By 55 Vict. c. 9, s. 1, an Act to amend the 8 & 9 Vict. 

 c. 109, any promise, express or implied, to pay any person 

 any sum of money paid by him under or in respect of any 

 contract or agreement rendered null and void by the 8 & 9 

 Vict. c. 109, or to pay any sum of money by way of com- 

 mission, fee, reward, or otherwise in respect of any such 

 contract, or of any services in relation thereto, or in con- 

 nexion therewith, shall be null and void, and no action 

 shall be brought or maintained to recover any such sum of 

 money. 



This enactment supersedes the ruling of the Court of 

 Appeal in Bead v. Anderson {d), the effect of which was 

 that the employment of a turf commission agent, being a 

 member of Tattersalls', to make a bet in his own name on 

 behalf of his principal, implied an authority to pay the bet 

 if lost, so that on the making of the bet that authority 

 became irrevocable. 



(c) 42 & 43 Vict. c. 18, Appendix. 



(d) 13 a B. D. 779; 63 L. J., 

 a. B. 532; 51 L. T., N. S. S5; 32 

 "W. E. 950— per Bowen and Fry, 



L.JJ., Brett, M.R., dissenting, 

 affirming the judgment of Hawkins, 

 J., 10 Q. B. D. 100. 



