BETTING ADVERTISMENTS. AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
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y J>T7NEDIN, January 19. Mr Graham, S.M., gave hir decision thia morning in tne case against Mir Macassey, secretary of the Forbury Pork Racing Club, charged with inserting ait advertisement to encourage people to bet -on the racecourse. : Hi» Worship said:—"Tie Act of 1885 makes it illegal to publish an advertUement to bet in any place in the manner as mentioned in the Act of 1881. Neither of these Act* mekes betting per ire. iliegal, bat the Act of 1831 forbid* that any house, office, room or other pltee be kept for the epecutl purpose of betting, bo that unless the advertisement complained of contained nn invitetion to come and bet at % place forbidden by law, there m no infringement of the Act. The decision of the House of' Lords in the cue of the Kempton Park Racicg- Company clearly lays down that an enclosure such as Forbury is not * place which can be denned M 'bting kept for the purpose of betting* within the meaning of the Act. Whether it woe the intention of the Legislature to forbid betting, or inriting to bet,- in any place whatever, it not for me to say, but if it was, it seems to me that the wordi in the amended Act, "in such manner ac i> mentioned in the Gaining susd Lotteries Act of 1881,' clearly nullify any sudi intention. The. case is accordingly dismissed."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11486, 20 January 1903, Page 6
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242BETTING ADVERTISMENTS. AN IMPORTANT DECISION. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11486, 20 January 1903, Page 6
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