Chapter XXVI: Part I: ). It would seem that the offence of winning is complete directly

the event is declared in favour of the person who is guilty of the fraud, before the money is actually paid over.[351]

[Sidenote: Privilege of Parliament.]

By 18 Geo. II., c. 34, s. 7, no privilege of Parliament can be pleaded to a charge of keeping a gaming house.

BETTING HOUSES.

[Sidenote: 16 & 17 Vict., c. 119.]

16 & 17 Vict., c. 119, after reciting that numerous establishments had been set up for betting houses and for taking money in advance on promises to pay on the events of horse-races. Section 1 enacts: “That no office, house, room, or other place shall be opened, kept, or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper thereof, or any person using the same, or any person procured or employed by or acting for or on behalf of such owner, occupier, or keeper or person using the same, or if any person having the care or management or in any manner conducting the business thereof, betting with persons resorting thereto: or for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of such owner, occupier, keeper, or person as aforesaid as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse-race or race, fight, game, sport, or exercise, or on the consideration for securing the payment or giving by some other person of any money or valuable thing on such events as aforesaid.” Every such house, &c., is declared to be a common nuisance.