 | Law - 1877 - 658 pages
...persons, and rogues and vagabonds, in that part of Great Britain called England," which provides that " every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means or deceit, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on his majesty's subjects," shall be liable... | |
 | Law - 1902 - 546 pages
...founded upon Sec. 4 of 5 Geo. 4, c. 83, which makes every person "-pretending or professing to Ы1 fortunes or using any subtle craft means, or device by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive or impose upon any of his Majesty's subjects,'' liable to be committed to the House of Correction with... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 764 pages
...And in sec. 4, "every person pretending ... to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft ... to ... impose on any of His Majesty's subjects; every person wandering abroad and lodging in any . . . outhouse . . . not having any visible means of subsistence, and not giving a good account of... | |
 | Law - 1928 - 966 pages
...long period. In England a statute was enacted In 1824 which makes punishable as a rogue and a vagabond "every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects." The statute did not define fortune-telling, but It was held in the case of Penny v. Hanson, LR 18,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 1020 pages
...liable to be punished as a rogue and vagabond. And the second of the enumerations is as follows : " Every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...or device by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and defraud any of his Majesty's subjects." The appellant could not properly be regarded as a person professing... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1877 - 882 pages
...justices convicting the appellant of being a rogue and vagabond under 5 Geo. 4, c. 83, as a " person using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and defraud any of His Majesty's subjects." The justices found as a fact (according to the view taken by... | |
 | Victoria - Session laws - 1908 - 586 pages
...to rebut any evidence given as to the general character or otherwise of the person charged. 9. Any person pretending or professing to tell fortunes or...craft means or device by palmistry or otherwise to defraud or impose on any other person shall be liable upon conviction to pay a penalty not exceeding... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Literary Collections - 1986 - 626 pages
...Home Secretary. It ran as follows — By the Vagrancy Act, 1824, every person using any subtle craft, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of his Majesty's subjects is to be deemed a rogue and a vagabond, and to be subject on conviction to imprisonment. The mere practice... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Fiction - 1995 - 484 pages
...course, to be used like this.' He hunted among his papers. 'Here is the beastly thing. "Every person professing to tell fortunes or using any subtle craft, means or device to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond", and... | |
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Every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of his majesty's subjects... 
