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Definition of Gambling house
1. Noun. A public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business).
Category relationships: Business, Business Enterprise, Commercial Enterprise
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice, Business Establishment, Place Of Business
Specialized synonyms: Casino, Gambling Casino
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gambling House
Literary usage of Gambling 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)
"The offence of keeping and maintaining a gambling house and the offence of being
an inmate ... A person may keep a gambling house without being an inmate. ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"From the prison and the gambling-house and the house of ill repute the message
or the messenger has hither come that might not have elsewhere gone. ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"A common gambling house, within the meaning of the statute prohibiting such
houses, may consist of a single room rented in a house of many rooms; ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1911)
"In the new act § 2 defines a gambling house to be a building or structure or vessel,
... 1757, under which the keeping of a gambling house can be punished. ..."
5. Leading Cases Simplified: A Collection of the Leading Cases in Criminal Law by John Davison Lawson (1892)
"Keeping a common gambling house is likewise indictable at common law. Simple gaming
is not; though in some States it is by statute. ..."
6. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"The offence of keeping and maintaining a gambling house and the offence of being
an inmate ... A person may keep a gambling house without being an inmate. ..."
7. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"From the prison and the gambling-house and the house of ill repute the message
or the messenger has hither come that might not have elsewhere gone. ..."
8. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"A common gambling house, within the meaning of the statute prohibiting such
houses, may consist of a single room rented in a house of many rooms; ..."
9. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1911)
"In the new act § 2 defines a gambling house to be a building or structure or vessel,
... 1757, under which the keeping of a gambling house can be punished. ..."
10. Leading Cases Simplified: A Collection of the Leading Cases in Criminal Law by John Davison Lawson (1892)
"Keeping a common gambling house is likewise indictable at common law. Simple gaming
is not; though in some States it is by statute. ..."
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