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- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 abstract "The Unlawful Games Act 1541 (33 Hen 8 c 9), sometimes referred to as the Suppression of Unlawful Games Act 1541, was an Act of the Parliament of England.So much of the Unlawful Games Act 1541 whereby any game of mere skill, such as bowling, coyting, cloyshcayls, half bowl, tennis, or the like, was declared an unlawful game, or which enacted any penalty for playing at any such game of skill as aforesaid, or which enacted any penalty for lacking bows or arrows, or for not making and continuing butts, or which regulated the making, selling, or using of bows and arrows, and also so much of the said Act as required the mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, and other head officers within every city, borough, and town within the Realm, to make search weekly, or at the farthest once a month, in all places where houses, alleys, plays, or places of dicing, carding or gaming were suspected to be had, kept and maintained, was repealed by section 1 of the Gaming Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict c 109).So much of the Unlawful Games Act 1541 as made it lawful for every master to license his or their servants, and for every nobleman and other having manors, lands, tenements or other yearly profits for term of life, in his own right or in his wife's right, to the yearly value of an hundred pounds or above, to command, appoint or license, by his or their discretion, his or their servants or family of his or their house or houses to play at cards, dice or tables, or any unlawful game, as therein more fully set forth, was repealed by section 1 of the Gaming Act 1845, which further enacted that no such commandment, appointment or licence was to avail any person to exempt him from the danger or penalty of playing at any unlawful game or in any common gaming house. The Unlawful Games Act 1541 was repealed in part by section 4 of 3 Geo 4 c 41 and by the Statute Law Revision Act 1863.The whole Act was repealed by section 15 of, and Part I of Schedule 6 to, the Betting and Gaming Act 1960. The Act forbade all sport on Christmas Day with the exception of archery practice, meaning that footballers who played on Christmas Day before 1960, when the Football League routinely scheduled fixtures for 25th December, had technically broken the law.[citation needed]".
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- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 longTitle "An Acte for Mayntenance of Artyllarie and debarringe of unlawful Games.".
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 parliament "Parliament of England".
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 shortTitle "The Unlawful Games Act 1541".
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 status "Repealed".
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 statuteBookChapter "33".
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 year "1541".
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 subject Category:1541_in_England.
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 subject Category:1541_in_law.
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 subject Category:Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_England_(1485–1603).
- Unlawful_Games_Act_1541 comment "The Unlawful Games Act 1541 (33 Hen 8 c 9), sometimes referred to as the Suppression of Unlawful Games Act 1541, was an Act of the Parliament of England.So much of the Unlawful Games Act 1541 whereby any game of mere skill, such as bowling, coyting, cloyshcayls, half bowl, tennis, or the like, was declared an unlawful game, or which enacted any penalty for playing at any such game of skill as aforesaid, or which enacted any penalty for lacking bows or arrows, or for not making and continuing butts, or which regulated the making, selling, or using of bows and arrows, and also so much of the said Act as required the mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, and other head officers within every city, borough, and town within the Realm, to make search weekly, or at the farthest once a month, in all places where houses, alleys, plays, or places of dicing, carding or gaming were suspected to be had, kept and maintained, was repealed by section 1 of the Gaming Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict c 109).So much of the Unlawful Games Act 1541 as made it lawful for every master to license his or their servants, and for every nobleman and other having manors, lands, tenements or other yearly profits for term of life, in his own right or in his wife's right, to the yearly value of an hundred pounds or above, to command, appoint or license, by his or their discretion, his or their servants or family of his or their house or houses to play at cards, dice or tables, or any unlawful game, as therein more fully set forth, was repealed by section 1 of the Gaming Act 1845, which further enacted that no such commandment, appointment or licence was to avail any person to exempt him from the danger or penalty of playing at any unlawful game or in any common gaming house. ".
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