Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… and elite gaming particularly, while the Victorian gaming act of 1845 recognised games of skill as legal and outlawed games of chance when played either in public or private for money. The 1664 Act formed a model for subsequent … 1 . Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary defines gaming as “to play wantonly and extravagantly for money.” Other laws aimed, with little success, at suppressing the games of faro , basset or hazard (1739) or at preventing taverns and … indulged in gambling behind closed doors. In 1782, a bill was aimed more directly at the game of EO (but never became law). The paradox of gambling lies in the fact that it defined a form of sociability but was denounced as anti-social. …
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