Excerpt from Games, Gaming and Gamesters' Law I Have been encouraged by the success of the first issue of this Book to publish a Second Edition. The First Edition has been carefully re-vised and materially added to by the introduction of information which I have since its publication acquired. I have written several additional chapters, treating of Tournaments, Jousts, Sword-playing and pastimes which have become obsolete, or nearly so, by reason of the progress of civilization, which militates against violence and cruelty. My first ten chapters, although interspersed with quaint and curious matter, will not, I believe, furnish as much amusement to the non-legal world as will the last ten chapters; therefore to my kind readers I say, "Use your own discretion;" forewarned, forearmed. Give the New Edition of my little Work a fair field and no favour, and I cannot complain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Games, Gaming, and Gamesters' Law I have also written a Chapter on the subject of Lotteries, touched upon Betting, and, in short, tried to make my little Treatise, so far as I am able, instructive to lawyers, though not a law book, and interesting to the general reader, though not strictly coming under the category of a contribu tion to the, so-called, light literature of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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