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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... "
Special Consular Reports - Page 455
by United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce - 1893
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Statutes at Large ...: (29 v. in 32) Statutes or the United Kingdom, 1801 ...

Great Britain - 1822 - 900 pages
...authorized by Law ; all Persons pretending to be Gipsies ; all Persons pretending to tell Fortunes, or using any subtle Craft, Means or Device, by Palmistry or...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's Subjects, or playing or betting at any unlawful Game ; and all Persons who run away and leave their Wives or...
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The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Volume 1

Richard Burn - Justices of the peace - 1823 - 660 pages
...; <K All persons pretending to be Gipsies ; 5. All persons pretending to tell fortunes; 6. Or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of HM's subjects ; 7. Or playing or betting at any unlawful game ; 8. All persons who run away and leave...
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The London Magazine

1828 - 746 pages
...their worshipful Master, those penalties of the statute law, which indubitably attach to those who use “any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry,...deceive and impose on any of his Majesty's subjects.” We have examined, somewhat accurately, into this point, and we have consulted several distinguished...
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A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions, and Other Sessions of the Peace ...

William Dickinson - Court rules - 1829 - 764 pages
...must state that the family were actually chargeable: the King v. Hall, 3 Burr. R. 1636. (o) s. 16. palmistry, or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of his Majesty's subjects. 3. Every person wandering abroad, and lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any deserted or unoccupied...
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Annual Register, Volume 71

Edmund Burke - History - 1830 - 986 pages
...offences a second time after a former conviction. Every person professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive or impose on any of his majesty's subjects. Every person wandering abroad andlodging in any barn or...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1830 - 852 pages
...offences a second time after a former conviction. Every person professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive or impose on any of his majesty's subjects. • Every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1830 - 928 pages
...offences a second time after a former conviction. Every person professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive or impose on any of his majesty's subjects. Every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or...
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The Practice of the Law in All Its Departments: With a View of ..., Volume 1

Joseph Chitty - Civil procedure - 1833 - 1020 pages
...idle and disorderly person ;" 2. " Every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or...deceive and impose on any of his majesty's subjects ;" 3. " Every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn pr outhouse, or in any deserted or unoccupied...
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Summary of the Criminal Law

Henry John Stephen - Criminal law - 1834 - 518 pages
...138. By 5 Geo. IV. c. 8, s. 4, fortune-tellers and persons using any subtle craft, means, or devise, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of his Majesty's subjects, are to be deemed rogues and vagabonds, and punished with imprisonment and hard labour. 6. Simony. By...
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The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present ..., Volume 1

Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - Law - 1835 - 854 pages
...punishes as rogues and vagabonds " 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 one." See 4 Comm. 6'0. CONQUEST, conquest/us.^ The feodal terms for purchase. As to countries granted...
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