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GAME OF CHANCE

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Engaging in games comprised of gambling. A term used with regard to advertising law for types of marketing which are regulated by advertising law and for which games do not typically require or demand any skill of the players. … [Read more...] about GAME OF CHANCE

GARAUNTOR

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L. Fr. In old English law. A warrantor of land; a vouchee; one bound by a warranty to defend the title and seisin of his alienee or on default thereof and on eviction of the tenant to give him other lands of equal value. … [Read more...] about GARAUNTOR

GAMING

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A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, which … [Read more...] about GAMING

GARBA

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In old English law. A bundle or sheaf. Blada in garbis, corn or grain in sheaves. Reg. Orig. 96; Bract, fol. 209. Garba sagittaram. A sheaf of arrows, containing twenty-four. Otherwise called "sehaffa sagittarum" Skene. … [Read more...] about GARBA

GAMING HOUSES

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crim. law. Houses kept for the purpose of permitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices. This offence is punished in Pennsylvania, an perhaps in most of the states, by statutory provisions. … [Read more...] about GAMING HOUSES

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