STATUTES. 



501 



paid such money, and shall accordingly be recoverable by action 

 at law in any of his majesty's courts of record. 



3. So much of the said Acts of the ninth and eleventh years 

 of the reign of her said late majesty Queen Anne as enacts that 

 where such mortgages, securities or other conveyances as 

 therein mentioned should be of lands, tenements or heredita- 

 ments, or should be such as should incumber or affect the 

 same, such mortgages, securities or other conveyances should 

 enure and be to and for the sole use and benefit of and should 

 devolve upon such person or persons as should or might have 

 or be entitled to such lands or hereditaments in case the 

 grantor or grantors thereof, or the person or persons incumber- 

 ing the same, had been naturally dead, and as if such mort- 

 gages, securities, or other conveyances had been made to such 

 person or persons so to be entitled after the decease of the 

 person or persons so incumbering the same, and that all grants 

 or conveyances to be made for the preventing of such lands, 

 tenements or hereditaments from coming to or devolving upon 

 such person or persons thereby intended to enjoy the same 

 as aforesaid, should be deemed fraudulent and void and of 

 none effect, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, shall be 

 and the same is hereby repealed ; saving to all persons all 

 rights acquired by virtue thereof previously to the passing of 

 this Act. 



Repealing 

 so much of 

 recited acts of 

 9 & 11 Ann. 

 as enacts that 

 securities 

 shall enure for 

 the benefit of 

 parties in 

 remainder. 



8 & 9 Vict. Cap. 109. 



An Act to amend the Law concerning Games and Wagers. 

 Whereas the laws heretofore made in restraint of unlawful 

 gaming have been found of no avail to prevent the mischiefs 

 which may happen therefrom, and also apply to sundry games 

 of skill from which the like mischiefs cannot arise ; be it 

 enacted by the queen's most excellent majesty, by and with the 

 advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and 

 commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the 

 authority of the same. That so much of an Act passed in the Repeal of 

 thirty-thu-d year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, part of 

 intituled " The Bill for maintaining Artillery, and the debarring f ^^- ' 

 of unlawful Games," whereby any game of mere skill, such as 

 bowling, coyting, oloyshcayls, half bowl, tennis, or the like, is 

 declared an unlawful game, or which enacts any penalty for 

 playing at any such game of skill as aforesaid, or which enacts 

 any penalty for lacking bows or arrows, or for not making and 

 oontuming butts, or which regulates the making, selling or 

 using of bows and arrows, and also so much of the said Act 

 as requires the mayors, sheritFs, bailiffs, constables, and other 

 head officers within every city, borough and town within this 

 realm, to make search ^veekly, or at the farthest once a month, 



