from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
GAMING HOUSES, crim. law. Houses kept for the purpose of permitting persons
to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eye
of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and
other corrupt practices. 1 Russ. on Cr. 299; Roscoe's Cr. Ev. 663; Hawk. B.
1, ch. 75, s. 6; 3 Denio's R. 101; 8 Cowen, 139; This offence is punished in
Pennsylvania, an perhaps in most of the states, by statutory provisions.