 | John Bruce Norton - 1859 - 638 pages
...suU shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager or...deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event upon which any wager shall have been made :' this section was held not to defeat an action for a wager... | |
 | 1064 pages
...suit can be brought or maintained in any Court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or...any person, to abide the event on which any wager has been made. This enactment does not, however, apply to ruiy subscription, or contribution, or agreement... | |
 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - 1861 - 682 pages
...of wager null and void, and the sums won irrecoverable in a Court of Law ; but, there is a proviso that this enactment shall not be deemed to apply to any subscription or contribution for or towards any plate, prize or sum of money to be awarded to the winner or winners of any lawful... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1862 - 622 pages
...suit shall be brought or maintained, in any Court of law or equity, for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or...deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event upon which any wager shall have been made." It was held by all the Court, except Platt, B., who dissented,... | |
 | Alexandra, vessel - 1864 - 264 pages
...suit shall be brought or maintained in any Court of Law or Equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or...deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event upon which any 2nd Day. Mr. Mellisli, " wager shall have been made.' Held, per Parke, B., Alderson,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 666 pages
...suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of moaej ot valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager or...deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event upon which any wager shall have been made :' this section was held not to defeat an action for i wager... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1876 - 920 pages
...shall be brought to recover any sum of money alleged to be won tipon any wager, or which shall hnve been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event of any wager, yet on the authority of decided cases that did not apply to the recovery of the sum deposited,... | |
 | Charles John Bunyon - 1867 - 316 pages
...shall " be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity " for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing " alleged to be won upon any wager,..." event on which any wager shall have been made." And if it may be assumed that a policy, when there is no interest, is a wager, and the words of the... | |
 | 786 pages
...; and no suit shall be maintained in any court of law or equity for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing alleged to be won upon any wager, or...the event on which any wager shall have been made. In the following case, it was held that if the loser of a wager request a third person to pay the amount... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - 1869 - 620 pages
...suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity, for recovering any sum of money, or valuable thing, alleged to be won upon any wager,...the event on which any wager shall have been made." * That enactment would probably have embraced this case, had it not been for the proviso, which declares... | |
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That all contracts or agreements, whether by parol or in writing, by way of gaming or wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no ' suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity, for recovering any sum of money, or valuable thing,... 
