| Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1890 - 922 pages
...whether there was evidence before the magistrate to justify the conviction. By 5 Geo. 4, c. 83, s. 4 : Every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects . . . and being subsequently convicted of the offence for which he or she shall have been BO apprehended,... | |
| United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce - Consular reports - 1893 - 654 pages
...CRIMES ACT, 1871." [ГпсЬзпп- in Capt. McHardy'e communication.] And be it further enactrd, That every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of Ilis Majesty's subjects; every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 956 pages
...offense when accompanied with begging of money or with fraudulent objects. Every person going about pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using...by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on her majesty's subjects, is deemed in law a rogue and vagabond. TELLINID/ba family of lamcllibranchiate... | |
| Frederick Stroud - Law - 1890 - 1062 pages
...LJMC 78 ; 1 Ex. D. 188 ; 40 JP 101). S. 4 of the Vagrant Act (5 G. 4, c. 83), makes it an offence " pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using...means or device by Palmistry or otherwise to deceive." " Reading this as a whole I should take the word ' otherwise,' not as limiting the earlier words, but... | |
| Gibraltar, Robert Ffrench Sheriff - Law - 1890 - 840 pages
...convicted as an idle and disorderly person ; or (b) Pretends or professes to tell fortunes, or uses any subtle craft, means or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to .deceive and impose on any person ; or (c) Wanders abroad and lodges in any outhouse, or in any unoccu"Public place." not having... | |
| Sir Andrew Reed - Constables - 1895 - 528 pages
...offences hereinbefore mentioned after having been convicted as an idle and disorderly person* ; (2) every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects ; (3) every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or out-house, or in any deserted or unoccupied... | |
| John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1895 - 1102 pages
...was within the statute 5 Geo. IV, ch. 83, § 4, making punishable, as a "rogue and vagabond," persons "using any subtle craft, means or device, by palmistry...deceive and impose on any of his majesty's subjects." An incorrigible son who disobeys the lawful commands of his mother, and absents himself from home without... | |
| Claude Francis - 1895 - 314 pages
...enchantment or conjuration, and every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, and every person using any subtle craft, means or device by palmistry or otherwise to deceive and impose upon any person, shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond. Fine $50 or impr. 3 months ; and for a second... | |
| John Ashton - Demonology - 1896 - 386 pages
...'witchcraft' certainly disappears, and only ' All Persons pretending to be Gipsies : all Persons pretending to tell Fortunes, or using any subtle Craft, Means, or Device, by Palmistry, or other wise, to deceive or impose upon any of His Majestys subjects,' shall be adjudged ' Common Rogues... | |
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