JB/072/063/004

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Gaming

as much as possible games ofhard skill in preference to
such in which skill and chance are concerned
jointly; and these in preference to games of mere
chance.

The misfortune is that to play at games of mere
skill, or even with any tolerable share of success
at games of the mixed kind of skill and chance
together requires some little portion of attention and
sagacity: but persons choose to play who will not
be at the trouble of (bestowing) any attention and who
possess no ingenuity.

It would however be of use if it were possible
to prohibit separately and by namealtogether all games of mere chance.
But this is evidently impossible. A Game Games of mere
chance may be made out of any every thing. It has
been made a game of chance to sit
by the thatch of a house and see which can
draw the longest straw. All that can be done
is to observe what games of this kind are most amusing
and are most in vogue and to prohibit them as
just as theyacquire names, a mere sign of their coming into vogue.

A game what A Game is a complex wager or succession of wagers, undermined by a manager
in want or ? wants in the preparation of which the party gaming is
instrumental at wager is either simple or complex.

A Simple wager A simple wager is that which is determined by
a single event

A complex wager A complex wager is that which is determined by
an concluding link ina combination of events.

Identifier: | JB/072/063/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	063	Info in main headings field	gaming
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [with crown] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23680
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