 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 684 pages
...persons and places, but the latter infests the whole community: it enters every dwelling; it readies every class ; it preys upon the hard earnings of the poor ; it plunders the ignorant and simple. It is a principle of the common law, that the king cannot sanction a nuisance. But, without asserting... | |
 | Law - 1905 - 378 pages
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 | Law - 1880 - 554 pages
...pestilence of lotteries. The former aro confined to a few persons and places, but the latter infests tho whole community; it enters every dwelling; it reaches...class ; it preys upon the hard earnings of the poor, and it plunders tho ignorant and simple." Happily, under the influence of restrictive legislation,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 820 pages
...government. Experience has shown that the common forms of gambling are comparatively innocuous when in contrast with the widespread pestilence of lotteries....class, it preys upon the hard earnings of the poor, and plunders the ignorant and the simple." If this be a correct view of the effects of lotteries, they... | |
 | Law - 1880 - 556 pages
...comparatively innocuous when placed in contrast with the wide-spread pestilence of lotteries. The former aro confined to a few persons and places, but the latter...class; it preys upon the hard earnings of the poor, and it plunders tho ignorant and simple." Happily, under the influence of restrictive legislation,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1058 pages
...reason for the distinction is forcibly expressed by the highest court of the land in this language: "The suppression of nuisances injurious to public...of the poor ; it plunders the ignorant and simple." Phalen v. Commonwealth, 8 How. 163, 12 L. Ed. 1030. It is true that lotteries and unlawful gamIng partake... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 892 pages
...speaking through Mr. Justice Grier, in Phalen v. Virginia, 8 How., 163, 168 (ยงยง 1852-53, supra), that "experience has shown that the common forms of gambling...class; it preys upon the hard earnings of the poor; and it plunders the ignorant and simple." Happily, under the influence of restrictive legislation,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1016 pages
...pestilence of lotteries. The former are confmed to a few persons and places, hut the latter infects the whole community; it enters every dwelling; it...of the poor; it plunders the ignorant and simple." The precise question we are now considering came before the supreme court in Stime v. Mississippi,... | |
 | Lotteries - 1890 - 88 pages
...pestilence of lotteries. The former are confined to a few persons and places, but the lottery infects the whole community; it enters every dwelling; it...earnings of the poor; it plunders the ignorant and the simple." We take it, then, that no one denies the immorality of a public lottery Shall we then... | |
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Experience has shown that the common forms of gambling are comparatively innocuous when placed in contrast with the widespread pestilence of lotteries. The former are confined to a few persons and places, but the latter infests the whole community; it... 
