428 



GAMING. 



Games within 

 intent of Act. 



Penalty on the 

 adventurers. 



Sales by 

 lottery Toid. 



Allotment or 

 partition by 

 lots. 



Passage and 



games with 



dice. 



13 Geo. 2, 



0. 19. 



Roulet or 

 roly])oly. 

 13 (Jeo. 2, 

 c. 34. 



Littlegoes 

 declared 

 nuisances. 

 42 Geo. 3. 

 I'. 119. 



sums to be divided among them by chances of the prizes in 

 some public lottery or lotteries established or allowed by 

 Act of Parliament," or exposing for sale any of the above 

 things by any game, method, or device whatsoever, to be 

 determined by any lot or drawing. 



By section 2, the games of ace of hearts, pharaoh, basset, 

 and hazard are declared to be games or lotteries by cards 

 or with dice within the meaning of the statutes 10 & 11 

 Will. 3, c. 17 ; 9 Ann. c. 6, s. 56 ; and 8 Geo. 1, c. 2, 

 s. 36, with the same penalties for setting up the same. 



By section 3, a penalty of 50/. is imposed upon every 

 person who shall be an adventurer in any of the said games, 

 lotteries, or sales, or shall play at either of the said games of 

 the ace of hearts, pharaoh, basset, and hazard. 



By section 4, all sales lay lotteries are declared void, and 

 the subject matter of any such sale is to be forfeited to the 

 person who shall sue for the same. 



And by section 11, nothing contained in the Act is to affect 

 any interest in lands, &c. held by any allotment or parti- 

 tion by lots. But all who may at any time become " part 

 owners, joint tenants, or tenants in common," of any land, 

 &c., may take such interest as they might have done by 

 virtue of '' any lot, scroll, chance, or allotment whatsoever," 

 if the Act had never been passed. 



By 13 Geo. 2, c. 19, s. 9, the game of passage, and all 

 games, invented or to be invented, with dice, except back- 

 gammon, are to be deemed to be lotteries within the mean- 

 ing of the 12 Geo. 2, c. 28,lsupra, and all persons who "set 

 up, maintain, or keep any office, table, or place," (save as ia 

 the said Act is provided and declared), for such games, or 

 who " play, set at stake, or adventure at " them shall 

 respectively be liable to the penalties inflicted for the like 

 offences against the said Act. 



And by 13 Geo. 2, c. 34, ss. 1 and 2, the like penalties 

 are imposed upon persons keeping any house, room, or 

 place, or permitting it to be used, for plaj'ing at roulet, or 

 rolypoly, or any game with cards or dice, already pro- 

 hibited by law, or playing at the same. 



The statute 42 Geo. 3, c. 119, recites the mischiefs 

 occasioned by certain lotteries called Uttkgoes, and declares 

 that " all such games or lotteries called Uttkgoes are public 

 nuisances " (o). 



Persons keeping lotteries within the meaning of this Act, 



(o) 42 Geo. 3, c. 119, s. 1 : and see AUport V. Ntitt, 1 C. B. at p. 989. 



