The courts awarded compensation for cheating in a game of cards where a person used a device to cause loss to the plaintiff, in this case a false card, called a ‘bumcard’
Citations:
72 English Reports 899, (1606) Moo KB 776
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Ivey v Genting Casinos UK Ltd (T/A Crockfords Club) CA 4-Nov-2016
The claimant sought recovery of his substantial winnings from the defendant gaming club. The club had resisted saying that the methods used by the claimant at cards, called, ‘edge sorting’ was a form of cheating, a criminal offence within the . .
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Crime
Updated: 13 April 2022; Ref: scu.571236
