Contracts, judgments, securities, conveyances made, given, granted, or executed, where the whole or any part of the consideration or foundation thereof shall be for money, or any valuable thing won, lost, or bet at any game or games, or on any horse-race, cock-fight, or at any other sport, amusement, or pastime, or on any wager whatever, or for the reimbursing or repaying any money knowingly lent or advanced for the purpose of such gaming or gambling, or to be wagered on any game, play, horse-race, cock-fight, or on any sport, amusement, pastime, or wager, shall be utterly void.
Miss. Code Ann. § 87-1-1
Utterly void
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Frank v. Dore (1994)
Most recently applied in Frank v. Dore (March 1994)
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 64, art. 3 (1); 1857, ch. 45, art. 1; 1871, § 1900; 1880, § 990; 1892, § 2114; 1906, § 2300; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1910; 1930, § 1824; 1942, § 22.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.