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Betting

Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The act of making a wager; a species of gambling. A bet or wager is ordinarily an agreement between two or more that a sum of money or some valuable thing, in contributing happening in the future of an event at the present uncertain; Harris v. White, 81 N. Y. 539. See Gaming.