Horse-racing: Its History and Early Records of the Principal and Other Race Meetings : with Anecdotes, Etc |
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Page 450 - Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion, according to the use of the Church of England.
Page 70 - ... any person or persons whatsoever, where the whole or any part of the consideration of such conveyances or securities shall be for any money, or other valuable thing whatsoever, won by gaming or playing at cards, dice, tables, tennis, bowls, or other game or games whatsoever, or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do...
Page 92 - That every person who shall by any fraud, or unlawful device, or ill practice in playing at or with cards, dice, tables, or other game, or in bearing a part in the stakes, wagers, or adventures, or in betting on the sides or hands of them that do play, or in wagering on the event of any game, sport, pastime, or exercise...
Page 21 - Three jockeys, or sometimes only two, as the match is made, prepare themselves for the contest ; such as being used to ride know how to manage their horses with judgment : the grand point is, to prevent a competitor from getting before them.
Page 95 - ... such person shall be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction (with or without hard labour), as to the justice or justices shall seem meet, for any term not exceeding two calendar months...
Page 93 - Viet. c. 109, s. 18, it is enacted, that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made...
Page 445 - ... view to relieve them from every possible inconvenience. Charge, when required, will be taken of children coming from India and the Colonies, and arrangements will be made for their education in England. To those going out to India, Australia, and the Colonies, Messrs.
Page 99 - ... calendar month at least before prosecuting the same, nor unless such action, suit, information, or other proceeding, shall be brought or commenced within three calendar months next after the act or omission complained of, or in case there shall be a continuation of damage, then within three calendar months next after the doing such damage shall have ceased.
Page 449 - The HISTORY of the ACQUISITION and ADMINISTRATION of the PUNJAB, being the First Volume of the Marquis of Dalhousie's Administration of British India. By Edwin Arnold, MA, of University College, Oxford.
Page 93 - ... that this enactment shall not be deemed to apply to any subscription or contribution, or agreement to subscribe or contribute, for or towards any plate, prize, or sum of money to be awarded to the winner or winners of any lawful game, sport, pastime, or exercise.