Pennsylvania Act 1794-1746 (session 3) — GAMBLING CONTRACTS VOID

Act text

AN ACT

For the prevention of vice and immorality, and of unlawful gaming, and to restrain disorderly sports and dissipation.

Section 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall lose any money or other valuable thing, at or upon any match of cock-fighting, bullet-playing, or horse-racing, or at or upon any game of address, game of hazard, play or game whatsoever, the person or persons who shall lose their money or other valuable thing shall not be compelled to pay or make good the same; and every contract, note, bill, bond, judgment, mortgage, or other security or conveyance whatsoever, given, granted, drawn or entered into for the security or satisfaction of the same, or any part thereof, shall be utterly void and of none effect.