Raffle
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A form of lottery by which the price of an article is divided into shares, and the article awarded by chance to one of the shareholders. Cent. Diet.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A game of even chance. See 21 Tex. 692.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A kind of lottery. A raffle may be described as a species of “adventure or hazard,” but has been held not to be a lottery. State v. Pinchback, 2 Mills (S. C.) 128. See Lottery.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A kind of lottery in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor of it. Webster; Prendergast v. State, 41 Tex. Cr. R. 358, 57 S. W. 850; Sinte v. Ken-non, 21 Mo. 264; People v. American Art Union, 7 N. Y. 241. A raffle may be described as a species of "adventure or hazard," but is held not to be a lottery. State v. Pinchback, 2 Mill, Const. (S. C.) 130.