 | Criminal law - 1917 - 496 pages
...Annotation (continued)—Fortune-telling (§ I—5)—Pretended PalmistryCriminal Code. Sec. 443. to use any subtle craft, means or device "by palmistry or otherwise," "to deceive or impose," etc. Offering by advertisement in newspapers to cast nativities and answer astrological... | |
 | Canada, W. J. Tremeear - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1919 - 1586 pages
...Act of 1824, hut with some variance in language. The English Act was directed to the punishment of " every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes...means or device by palmistry or otherwise to deceive or impose upon any of His Majesty's subjects." So, under the English Act, it was clear that there must... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris - Criminal law - 1919 - 596 pages
...every person is summarily punishable as a rogue and vagabond who pretends to tell fortunes or uses any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose. (d) 5 Geo. IV. c. 83; vp 127. CHAPTER IV. OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE. IN the first place we shall... | |
 | Lewis Spence - Occultism - 1920 - 516 pages
...until the case of Smith (23 R (IC) 77). The old Act extended to Scotland as aforesaid enacted that " every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes...deceive, and impose on any of His Majesty's Subjects " shall be c"eemed a vagabond and rogue within the meaning of the Act and shall be punishable as therein... | |
 | William Blake Odgers, Walter Blake Odgers - Common law - 1920 - 762 pages
...the above offences, after having been previously convicted as " an idle and disorderly person." (b) Every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...means, or device by palmistry or otherwise to deceive or impose on any of His Majesty's subjects. Palmistry is now a fashionable amusement; it is even alleged... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 904 pages
...Taylor, 45 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1922 - 822 pages
...mechanical tricks to produce the appearance of supernormal physical phenomena. By the section referred to, "every person . . . pretending or professing to tell...deceive and impose on any of his Majesty's subjects . . . shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond, etc.," (punishable by hard labor in the house of correction... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - Common fallacies - 1923 - 1010 pages
...any person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle-craft, means, or devices, by palmistry, or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects, is to be deemed a rogue and vagabond. Under this Act a person may be convicted for attempting to deceive... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 912 pages
...(3Ï and 35 Viet. cap. 112), sec. 15. The Act 5 Geo. IV. cap. 83, sec. 4. provides — . . . "That every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects . . . shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond, within the true intent and meaning of this Act, and shall... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - Challenger, Professor (Fictitious character) - 1926 - 294 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... 
