Place

The word is associated with objects which are, in their nature, fixed and territorial.

U. S. v. Bevans, 3 Wheat. (U. S.) 336, 4 L. Ed. 404.

See Venue. It is applied to any locality, limited by boundaries however large or however small.. It may be used to designate a country, state, county, town, or a very small portion of a town. The extent of the locality designated by it must, generally, be determined by the connection in which it Is used; Daw v. Fairfield, 46 Vt. 432. Any piece of ground appropriated * by its owner or occupier for the time being is a place within the English betting houses act; 51 L. J. M. C. 56; but the ground must be so appropriated and must be an ascertained place; 14 Q. B. 1).

588.

The habitual standing or using a table in llyde Park does not make it a place for betting; 19 G. B. N. S. 765; as habitual user is not of the essence of place; 10 Q. B. 102; but a 4>iece of ground bounded on one side by a boarding and on two other sides by stays which support the boarding is a place under 16 & 17 Vic. c.

119, relating to betting; [1896] 1 Q. B. 295. See [1897] 1 Q. B. 579.

A private residence may become a public place when it is used for the purpose of public amusement, recreation, busiuess, or religious Worship; White v. State, 39 Tex. Cr. R. 269, 45 S. W. 702, 46 S. W. 825.