Games, gaming and gamester's law

Francis Frederick Brandt

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^v UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIAOF ANGELESLOS LAWOFSCHOOL LIBRARY ^>-.o>«A^^s^^^.^^5^=^Thy certain gameshave shown how, whenI passed for purposes andillegal by statutesbecame in due coursewhich I point out, howwith objects leoal, have wound upbecame and Iillejral irames summary which will enablemy little Book with a glance what games are nowreaders to see at amy illegal. AMth the viewlegal and what still remain inseparable from anyrelieving the tediousnessof legal subjects, I have atwhich deals withwork of the mode inintroduced descriptionsintervals and forgotten, weregames, now obsoletewhich con-together with incidents and anecdotesplayed, PREFACE. "riGCted uith the general subject of Games and Gaming." I have also written a Chapter on the subject of Lotteries, touched upon Betting, and, in short, tried to make my little Treatise, so far as I am able, instructive to lawyers, though not a law book, and interesting to the general reader, though not strictly coming under the category of a contribu- "tion to the, so-called, liirlit literature" of the dav. rrvEDEKICK BKANDT Inner Tkmple. "^P^^^ i^*^-,,:!' ...... ....... 1 CONTENTS.TABLE OF I.CHAPTER PAGE 1Principally Introductory 2Games and Gaming in general of Guininj. 3Curious reasons for the unlawfulness .. 4All Games originally Legal CHAPTER ir. . 5Op Cheating and Excessive Gaming . . . False Dice, the Case of Ilurris v. with Loaded and BoKclen .. . . . . • • . . 7 Action will lie for Cheating . . . . . . 9 .

Sujets

• Gambling
• Games
• Great Britain

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 92
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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GAMES, GAMING
GAMESTERS' LAW.
BY
Fr^yc.. FREDERICK BRANDT,
OF THE INNEU TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
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UOE. (Epist. lib. 2, 1, V. 184).
LONDON
IIEXRY SWEET, CHANCERY3, LANE,
C. F. MAXWELL, MELBOURNE.
1873.:
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