 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...offence 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, and may be committed to the house of... | |
 | Francis Frederick Brandt - Gambling - 1871 - 138 pages
...raid upon the lowest order of gamesters and loose fish. Accordingly, by sect. 4, it is enacted that " Every person pretending or " professing to tell fortunes...by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive " and impose upon any of his majesty's subjects; every " person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or " outhouse,... | |
 | John Wade - Law - 1871 - 946 pages
...Practisers of the occult sciences are also punishable under 5 G. 4, c. 83 ; and persons pretending to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means,...or device, by palmistry, or otherwise, to deceive any of her Majesty's subjects, are punishable aa rogues and vagabonds. A similar species of offence... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 876 pages
...offence 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, and may be committed to the house of... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1874 - 724 pages
...witchcraft. — (Christian's Blackpassed, in consequence of an old stone.) woman being drowned at Tringr, in using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive his majesty's subjects, — are to be deemed rogues and vagabonds ; and to be punished with imprisonment... | |
 | John Wade - English law - 1874 - 1018 pages
...sciences are also punishable nuder 5 tí. 4, с. 83 ; and persons pretendiug to tell fortunes, or usinç any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry, or otherwise, to deceive any of her Majesty's subjects, are punishable as rogues and vagabonds. A similar species of offence... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1875 - 778 pages
...punishable (") See hook ii. p. 279. iu France. 12 By the vagrant act, (5 Geo. IV. c. 8, s. 4,) persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using...palmistry, or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of hie majesty's subjects, are rogues and vagabonds. — OHITTY. 13 But, according to 2 Bla. Rep. 1052,... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 858 pages
...апУ person for such supposed offence; but by or вогсегг. the 5 Geo. 4, c. 8, s. 4, persons pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using...device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any of her majesty's subjects, shall be deemed rogues and vagabonds, and be subject to a year's... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Exchequer Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 524 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,...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects." The appellant could not properly be regarded as a person professing to tell fortunes, and was not so... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 490 pages
...what he is alleged to have done ? The offence defined by the Vagrant Act is " Professing or pretending to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive or impose on any of Her Majesty's subjects." I think that in order to constitute this offence, two... | |
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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... 
