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Definition of Lotteries
1. lottery [n] - See also: lottery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lotteries
Literary usage of Lotteries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1907)
"The study of lotteries which we are concerned with here relates to the history
of lotteries in New York from 1721 to 1833. During this period lotteries were ..."
2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1900)
"Lotteries sprang up, and in a short time there was a wheel in every city ...
It is said there are nearly twenty lotteries on foot in the different States. ..."
3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Authorised lotteries.—Lotteries have been distinguished from other forms of ...
A long list of lotteries authorised in Virginia is given in Jefferson's ..."
4. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1868)
"25, 1834, regulating and substantially abolishing lotteries, was held to be
constitutional.2 In Missouri there are decisions both for and against the power ..."
5. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Authorised lotteries.—Lotteries have been distinguished from other forms of ...
A long list of lotteries authorised in Virginia is given in Jefferson's ..."
6. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Authorised lotteries.—Lotteries have been distinguished from other forms of ...
A long list of lotteries authorised in Virginia is given in Jefferson's ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Almost all modern states have, at some period of their history, employed lotteries
as a means of revenue. But though they supply a ready mode of ..."
8. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Betterment Lotteries 1791. Propriety of discontinuing practice of raising money
for public use by lotteries. (Govs. mess. May 1791.) 1818. ..."
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