Gamble

To engage in unlawful play. To play gaipes for stakes or bet in them. It is the most apt word in the language to express these ideas; Bennett v. State, 2 Yerg. (Tenn.) 472. A gambler Is one who follows or practices games of chance or skill with the expectation and purpose of thereby winning money or other property. Buckley v. O’Niel, 113 Masa 193, 18 Am. Rep. 466. A common.gambler is one who furnishes facilities for gambling, or keeps or exhibits a gambling table, establishment, device, or apparatus. People V. Sponsler, 1 Dak. 291, 46 N. W. 459, citing cases. A gambling policy is a life-insurance policy taken out by one who has no insurable interest in the life of the assured. See i NstJBABLB Interest. A gambling device is any contrivance or apparatus by which it is determined who is the winner or loser in a chance or contest on which money or value is staked or risked; Portis v. State, 27 Ark. 362; State v. Grimes, 49 Minn. 443, 62 N. W. 42; and the courts look to the substance of the game and not to the name merely; Smith V. State, 17 Tex. 191. The words “or other device” in an anti-gambling statute are not too loose and vague to be the basis of an indictment; U. S. V. Speeden, 1 Cra. 0. 0. 535, Fed. Caa No. 16,366; contra; State v. Mann, 2 Or. 238. The term does not Include implements used also for innocent amusement, as a pack of cards; State v. Hardin, 1 Kan. 474; nor is a horse-race a gambling device; State V. Lemon, 46 Mo. 375; nor the “game of cards commonly called poker”; State v. Mann, 2 Or. 238, where it was said lhat a device must be something tangible, and a game is not that but merely the result of using the device; but this ruling is criticized State V. Gltt Lee, 6 Or. 42a See 2 Whart Or. L. I 1466; Gamxno; Lotteby; Ftttvbes; Stock; Waqeb.,

To game or play at a game for money. Buckley v. O'Niel, 113 Mass. 193, 18 Am. Rep. 466. The word "gamble" is perhaps the most apt and substantial to convey the idea of unlawful play that our language affords. It is inclusive of hazarding and betting as well as playing. Bennett v. State, 2 Yerg. (Tenn.) 474.

— Gambler. One who follows or practices games of chance or skill, with the expectation and purpose of thereby winning money or other property. Buckley v. O'Niel, 113 Mass. 193, 18 Am. Rep. 466.

— Gambling. See Gaming.

— Gambling device. A machine or contrivance of any kind for the playing of an unlawful game of chance or hazard. In re Lee Tong (D. Ct) 18 Fed. 257; State v. Hardin. 1 Kan. 477.

— Gambling policy. In life insurance. One issued to a person, as beneficiary, who has no pecuniary interest in the life insured Otherwise calied a "wager policy." Gambs v. Covenant Mut. Ins. Co.., 50 Mo. 47.

The word “gamble” is perhaps the most apt and substantial to convey the idea of unlawful play that our language affords. It is inclusive of hazarding and betting as well as playing. 2 Yerg. 474.

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.