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Gamble

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

To play a game of chance or skill for stakes, or to bet on the result of the game; to game or play for money.

Gambler.

One who follows or practices games of chance or skill with the expectation and purpose of thereby winning money or other property.* Common gambler. Applied to a person who furnishes facilities for gambling, — one who, for gambling purposes, keeps or exhibits any gambling table, establishment, device or apparatus.

5 Gambling.

Anything which induces men to risk their money or property without other hope of return than to get for nothing a given amount from another person.* Crambling device. An invention to determine who wins and who loses among those that risk their money on a contest or chance of any kind.' Qambling house.

Keeping a structure of 'See Ayers v. Kndley, 1 Pa. 501 (1845), Gibson, C. J.; Webster's Diet. " Duty on Ale, &c., 16 Op. Att.-Gen. 359 (1879); E. S. S 2504, Sch. D. " Gal'-lus. Mid. Eng. galwes, pi. of A. S. galga, cross, gibbet. * Buckley v. O'Niel, 113 Mass. 193 (1873), Ames, J. •People V. Sponsler, 1 Dak. 291-95 (1876), cases. 'Brua's Appeal, 55 Pa. 296 (1867), oases; Smith v. Bouvier, 70 id.

325 (1872); 14 Bush, 741; 49 Mich. 387; 73 E. C. L. 525. ' [Portis V. State, 27 Ark. 362 (1872); State v. Bryant, any kind for purposes of gambling, is an indictable offense at common law.i Qambling 'policy. A policy of life insurance issued to a person who has no pecuniary interest in the life insured. 2 See further Game, 3; House, 1.