| 单词 | lottery vagrant |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslottery vagrant lottery vagrant n. now historical a person who illegally sells insurance against the purchase of a lottery ticket which does not win a prize.Earliest in lottery vagrant act, with reference to an Act of Parliament, passed in 1787, which stated that anyone found guilty of selling such insurance would be liable to prosecution under the Vagrancy Act. ΚΠ 1792 Universal Mag. Feb. 153/2 Every house within the rules, converted to the purpose of defeating the lottery vagrant act, should be excluded from, and deemed to be no part of, the rules. 1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis iii. 63 An idle or suspicious character, or Lottery vagrant. 1804 Proc. Old Bailey 16 May 294/2 John French and John Bailey, lottery vagrants, taken by Cooper to the Poultry Compter. 2012 A. Eccles Vagrancy in Law & Pract. under Old Poor Law iii. 59 Several of the lottery vagrants brought within the vagrancy laws by the 1787 Lottery Act (27 Geo. III c. 1 1787) appealed. < as lemmas |
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