...or sell, a gambling transaction, within the statute, 8 and 9 Viet. ch. 109 ; by which it is enacted that " all contracts or agreements, whether by parol...way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void." WILLIAMS JUSTICE said "there was ample evidence of a mutual understanding between the plaintiff and...

...5 & 6 Will. IV. c. 41, are now repealed by the stat. 8 & 9 Viet. c. 109, s. 16, the 18th section of which enacts, that all contracts or agreements, whether...writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void(Z). Gambling transactions in foreign funds (m) are not within the Stock Jobbing Act, stat. 7 Geo....

...4.) III. If money be won on a wager, can it be recovered 1 A»s. — By 8 & 9 Viet. c. 109, s. 18, contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, arc null and void, and no suit can be brought or maintained in any Court of law or equity for recovering...

...punished as obtaining money by false pretences. Sec. 18. All contracts or agreements, whether by parole or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void, and not recoverable at law ; but this provision not to apply to any subscription or contribution towards...

...houses, &c., ib. s. 4, et seq. ; as to lieences for billiards, &c., ib. s. 10, et scq. ; all contraets, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, to be void, ib. s. 18. suppressing betting houses, 16 & 17 Viet. c. 119. for the suppression of gaming...

...was not L1>'iiig a debt authorised by the defendant to be paid bjrhia By the 8*9 Viet c. 109, s. 18, all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in...writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null nnd void. [ИАХПЯ, B. — If the real fact was that Bowie made the bets for Bristow, and having...

...obtaining the same by a false pretence, and be punished accordingly (<>) ; and that all contracts, (whether by parol or in writing,) by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void(p) ; and that no suit at law or in equity, shall be brought to recover from a stakeholder, a deposit...

...be punished accordingly. Section 18. — Enacts that all contracts or agreements, whether by parole or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought, &c., in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money,...

...this conviction does not state that such was the case." 8 And under an English statute which provided, "that all contracts or agreements, whether by parol...way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void," the judges held that a colorable contract for the sale and purchase of railway shares, where, according...

...was enacted by e. 18 of the Gaming Act, 1845, that " All contracts or agreements, whether by parole or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void." The defendant's argument was that the effect of those two sections taken together was impliedly to...