 | James Paterson - Civil rights - 1877 - 530 pages
...denomination of rogues and vagabonds. Such are persons who pretend or profess to tell fortunes, or use any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on people.2 This enactment applies to gypsies and others who resort to this popular art of nattering the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 896 pages
...first offence specified, "professing to tell fortunes." Those which follow are of a like character, using any subtle craft, means or device by palmistry or otherwise to deceive, and the general character of the means or límele т. Bilio». EICH. device is sufficiently indicated by... | |
 | Québec (Province) - Session laws - 1879 - 270 pages
...of the 37 v- £ following sub-section after sub-section 9 of section 123 : Jneud " 9a. To punish any person pretending or professing to •tell fortunes,...palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of Her Majestyis subjects. " 29. The said act is hereby amended by the insertion Posting of of the following... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 702 pages
...term included astrology ; but by the vagrant act, 5 Geo. IV. c. S, Sec. 4, all ' persons pretending to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means,...device, by palmistry or otherwise to deceive and impose upon any of Ins Majesty's subjects,' are rogues and vagabonds — that is, punishable by any magistral**,... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 924 pages
...first offence specified — "professing to tell fortunes." Those which follow are of a like character, "using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise to deceive," &c. The general character of the means or device is sufficiently "^indicated by the earlier words,... | |
 | James Paterson - Freedom of religion - 1880 - 612 pages
...of the above offence as to telling fortunes was also punished by the Vagrant Act, which enacts, that every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects, is deemed a rogue and vagabond, and is liable to three mouths' imprisonment in the house of correction.3... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Great Britain - 1880 - 390 pages
...almost illogical offence of "an act of vagrancy." It had some substantiality in it when it dealt with "every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose." But when it came to " loitering" for questionable purposes, to sleeping in the open air, to not " giving... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Great Britain - 1880 - 394 pages
...almost illogical offence of "an act of vagrancy." It had some substantiality in it when it dealt with "every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose." But when it came to " loitering " for questionable purposes, to sleeping in the open air, to not "... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 886 pages
...phenomena " might be punished as a "rogue and vagabond," under a statute of Geo. 4, applying to persons " using any subtle craft, means or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose 01 any of bis majesty's subjects." It was argued that the statute was enacted against tagmsv •specially... | |
 | James Paterson - Freedom of religion - 1880 - 656 pages
...of the above offence as to telling fortunes was also punished by the Vagrant Act, which enacts, that every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle cr^ft, means, or device by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects,... | |
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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... 
