
Published online:
01 January 2010
Published in print:
09 September 2004
Online ISBN:
9780191711145
Print ISBN:
9780199276158
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3.1 Introduction 3.1 Introduction
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3.2 The Gaming Houses Act 1854 3.2 The Gaming Houses Act 1854
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3.3 Defining Gaming: Skill, Chance, and Baccarat 3.3 Defining Gaming: Skill, Chance, and Baccarat
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3.4 Baccarat: A Matter of Class 3.4 Baccarat: A Matter of Class
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3.5 The Early Twentieth Century 3.5 The Early Twentieth Century
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3.5.1 Credits and Debits 3.5.1 Credits and Debits
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3.5.2 Skill and Chance: The Problem of Whist 3.5.2 Skill and Chance: The Problem of Whist
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3.5.3 The Good Cause 3.5.3 The Good Cause
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3.6 The Catalyst for Regulation 3.6 The Catalyst for Regulation
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3.6.1 The Royal Commission on Betting, Gaming, and Lotteries 1949–51 3.6.1 The Royal Commission on Betting, Gaming, and Lotteries 1949–51
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3.6.2 The Vicar's Charter: A ‘Lamentable Failure’ 3.6.2 The Vicar's Charter: A ‘Lamentable Failure’
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3.6.3 Social Costs 3.6.3 Social Costs
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Chapter
3 Gaming in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Pages
61–89
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Published:September 2004
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Miers, David, 'Gaming in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries', Regulating Commercial Gambling: Past, Present, and Future, Oxford Socio-Legal Studies (Oxford , 2004; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Jan. 2010), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276158.003.0004, accessed 1 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter discusses the impact of the enactment of the Gaming Act of 1845, which provided that all wagering contracts would be unenforceable at law, and that ‘debts so contracted should be recovered by such means only as the usages and customs of society can enforce for its own protection’. It also presents an account of the resurgence of gaming in the 1960s, a wholly unforeseen development facilitated by the Betting and Gaming Act of 1960, enacted for the purpose of licensing off-track betting with bookmakers.
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