Legal glossary
“common gaming-house”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Public Gambling Act, 1867 · s. 1
"Common gaming-house".— "Common gaming-house" means any house, walled enclosure, room or place in which cards, dice, tables or other instruments of gaming are kept or used for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using or keeping such house, enclosure, room or place, whether by way of charge for the use of the instruments of gaming, or of the house, enclosure, room or place, or otherwise howsoever. 7* * * * *
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