Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Badger game
a scheme to extort money or some other benefit by catching someone in a compromising position and threatening to make that person's behavior public.
Banking game
a gambling arrangement in which the house (i.e., the bank) accepts bets from all players and then pays out winning bets and takes other bettors' losses.
Game
ub. To gamble; to play for a stake.
Unumquodque ligamen dissolvitur eodem ligamine qui et ligatur
Every obligation is dissolved in the same manner in which it is contracted.
con game
See CONFIDENCE GAME,
confidence game
A means of obtaining money or property whereby a person intentionally misrepresents facts to gain the victim's trust so that the victim will transfer money or property to the person. - Also termed con game; con.
game law
A federal or state law that regulates the hunting of game, esp. one that forbids the capturing or killing of specified game either entirely or seasonally, describes the means for killing or capturing game in season, or restricts the number and type of game that may be killed or captured in season. 16 USCA §§ 661-667; 18 USCA §§ 41-47.
game of chance
A game whose outcome is determined by luck rather than skill. Cf. GAMBLING DEVICE.
numbers game
A type of lottery in which a person bets that on a given day a certain series of numbers will appear from some arbitrarily chosen source, such as stock-market indexes or the U.S. Treasury balance. ( The game creates a fund from which the winner's share is drawn and is subject to regulation as a lottery.