 | Daniel Stephen - 1905 - 428 lehte
...Geo. II., c. 5, s. 4.) 2. Any person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtile craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise,...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects, may be treated as a rogue and a vagabond. (5 Geo. IV., c. 83, s. 4.) FOUNTAIN'S. — 1. Every person... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - 1908 - 698 lehte
...superseded by the Vagrancy Act, 1824, 5 Geo. iv. c. 83, s. 2, which punishes as & rogue and vagabond " every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes,...means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive or impose on any of His Majesty's subjects." The offender may be arrested without warrant by a constable... | |
 | American Society for Psychical Research - 1922 - 774 lehte
...mechanical tricks to produce the appearance of supernormal physical phenomena. By the section referred to, " every person . . . pretending or professing to tell...deceive and impose on any of his Majesty's subjects . . . shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond, etc.," (punishable by hard labor in the house of correction... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - 1907 - 850 lehte
...is summarily punishable as a rogue and a vagabond who pretends or proposes to tell fortunes, or uses any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose. As to the procedure under this Act, see VAGABOND. This enactment has been applied to astrologers in... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1907 - 350 lehte
...any person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle-craft, means, or devices, by palmistry, or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects, is to be deemed a rogue and vagabond. Under this Act a person may be convicted for attempting to deceive... | |
 | Victoria - 1908 - 542 lehte
...to rebut any evidence given as to the general character or otherwise of the person charged. 9. Any person pretending or professing to tell fortunes or...craft means or device by palmistry or otherwise to defraud or impose on any other person shall be liable upon conviction to pay a penalty not exceeding... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1908 - 350 lehte
...any person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle-craft, means, or devices, by palmistry, or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects, is to be deemed a rogue and vagabond. Under this Act a person may be convicted for attempting to deceive... | |
 | Albert William Chaster - 1909 - 926 lehte
...mentioned, after having been convicted as an idle and disorderly person; every person Persons com- pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or <xffence? shaû'" device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of his Majesty's... | |
 | John Mews - 1923 - 278 lehte
...or Pretending to Tell Fortunes — Intent to Deceive.]— By section 4 of the Vagrancy Act, 1824, " Every person . . . pretending or professing to tell...deceive and impose on any of His Majesty's subjects . . . shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond, within the true intent and meaning of this Act. . . ."... | |
 | South Australia - 1916 - 232 lehte
...view to obtaining money or any other benefit or advantage : (d) who pretends to tell fortunes, or uses any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any of His Majesty's subjects : (e) who has in his custody or possession, without lawful excuse... | |
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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... 
