Legal
Aspects Of Gambling
The statutory gambling
laws in each state are presented in the form of full
text. A chart answering to the common state gambling law
questions is also included, as are articles explaining
different aspects
of the various gambling laws. Gambling in the United
States has undergone a major boom. During the various
past decades, most of the states have expanded legalized
gaming, including regulated casino-style games and
lotteries. There has been an explosion in opening of the
Native American casinos. Gambling and betting online has
increased phenomenally. The various laws explain and
analyze the patchwork of state and federal and state
gambling laws that apply to the boom.
Gamble and gambling
The words "gamble" and "gambling" are generally used in
order to discuss as an activity that may run a foul of
applicable criminal laws. The word "gaming" is usually
reserved for those instances where the activity has been
very specifically legalized by the applicable laws or
where the activity is exempted from the criminal laws.
Thus, playing as a casino-style game at a for-profit
website online in the state such as the United States is
referred to as gambling as no state has yet finalized
any law specifically authorizing a for-profit website
operator to offer any casino games to the general
public. The two words are not mutually exclusive, that
is, a gaming activity could turn out to be gambling
where the applicable laws regulating that particular
gaming are violated.
Conclusion
Similarly a gambling activity may turn out to be gaming
if it is exempted from of a given criminal statute. Take
for example, playing of a card game for money in a
purely social setting where no one earns anything from
the game other than as a mere player would be gaming if
such social games were excluded from the reach of the
criminal laws in the state where the game takes place.
“If no specific Internet gambling legislation is
adopted, then the off-line rules remain applicable to
the virtual world. The Gambling Web sites are subjects
to the same regulatory and licensing requirements same
as the off-line world. What is illegal off-line remains
illegal online; it is illegal to offer as in the
Internet gambling services to consumers resident in a
country where a license has not been granted by the
appropriate authorities.”
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