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Definition of Gaming house

1. Noun. A public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaming House

Literary usage of Gaming house

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"As to sufficiency of evidence to establish the offence of "keeping a common gaming house," see Robbins v. People, 95 111. 175; that defendant was in charge ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"It is not essential to constitute the offense of keeping a common gaming house that the rambling therein should be in view of the pub- lie, ..."

3. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"EVIDENCE THAT A HOUSE IS A COMMON gaming house. The following circumstances are evidence (until the contrary is proved) that a house, room, ..."

4. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe (1888)
"336, it was held that the keeping of a gaming-house was an offence at ... Keeping a common gaming-house, and for lucre and hire unlawfully causing and ..."

5. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: With the Practice of Country by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"GAMING-HOUSE. Keeper, punishable by indictment.] A common gaming-house is a public nuisance; and the party keeping it is punishable, as for a misdemeanor at ..."

6. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"As to sufficiency of evidence to establish the offence of "keeping a common gaming house," see Robbins v. People, 95 111. 175; that defendant was in charge ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"It is not essential to constitute the offense of keeping a common gaming house that the rambling therein should be in view of the pub- lie, ..."

8. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"EVIDENCE THAT A HOUSE IS A COMMON gaming house. The following circumstances are evidence (until the contrary is proved) that a house, room, ..."

9. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe (1888)
"336, it was held that the keeping of a gaming-house was an offence at ... Keeping a common gaming-house, and for lucre and hire unlawfully causing and ..."

10. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: With the Practice of Country by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"GAMING-HOUSE. Keeper, punishable by indictment.] A common gaming-house is a public nuisance; and the party keeping it is punishable, as for a misdemeanor at ..."

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