Gift enterprise
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A scheme for the division or distribution of certain articles of property, to be determined by chance, among those iyho have taken shares in the scheme. The phrase has attained such a notoriety as to justify a court in taking judicial notice of what is meant and understood by it.
Lohman v. State, 81 Ind. 17; Lansburgh v. District of Columbia, 11 App. D. C. 524; State v. Shugart, 138 Ala. 86, 35 South. 28, i00 Am. St. Rep. 17; Winston v. Beeson, 135 N. C. 271, 47 S. E. 457. 65 L. R. A. 167.