... man,-an underling engaged at a pound or two per week. This man is made of flesh and blood. If he were detected practising 'palmistry' and dismissed the service, he would get a better berth in some private yard the next day. I fear some readers will blame ...

... itself within the cog- nisance of ocr law. There are undoubtedly per- sons who still believe that fortunes may be told by palmistry and such other processes, but old women are punished for extorting money out of raw country servant girls under the pretence ...

... had set out by palmistry my friend might have said, This offence is not palmistry ; while if I had added or otherwise, he would have said the offence was not clearly set forth. The offence was, how- ever, cognate to palmistry. Mr. Cooper urged ...

... of HENRY VIII. in order to a restrain palmistry, distinctly states that the reil t object in view was to punish the outlandish a people calling themselves Egyptians. who 51Oie r tend to tell for unes by palmistry. The in t tended application of the Vagrauts ...

... Hill proceeded to argue that the appellant's offence was cognate to palmistry, the course he took is wholly incomprehensible, for if Mr. Slade's offence was cognate to palmistry, the conviction could clearly have been upheld under the words or ...

... ground that the facts as stated did not amount to palmistry or otherwise, and then also upon the other ground. The magistrates appeared to him to have pur- posely abstained from saying by palmistry or otherwise. Mr. Baron Cleasby said that it was no ...

... but the craft, means, or device in question must be by palmistry or otherwise -otherwise being construed in accordance with well-knownprinciples of legal ?? ejmusdecm generis with palmistry. The offence, in short, which the statute creates is not ...

... argued thdt Mr. Monuk. r' -had been wrbngf y convicted, IHe submitted -that,' unless the offnder wns convicted of using :palmistry, the:f statute could unot apply .to him, After hearing' the argumlents on both sldes, .tbeir. s lord3ahipa deferredi jud ...

... distinctly states that persons professing or pretending to tell fortunes or using ally subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive or impose on any of his Ma- jesty's subjects, shall be deemed to be rogues and vagabonds. Under ...

... ; and this raised the question whether in reading the 83rd section by palmistry or otherwise the words or otherwise should only include offences ejuzsdemn generis with palmistry or fortune-telling, against which it was contended on behalf of the appellant ...

... October last. The sppella ut contended that the words 'palmistry n or otherwiset in the Act tinder which he was it convicted conflned the appliction of the statute 1 to nats similar1 to palmistry, such as' telling S fortunes by the lines on the bands ...

... absence could be readily surmised. They were convicted by Mr. Flowers, under the Vagrancy Act, for using certain devices, by palmistry or otherwise, to obtain money; and the words of the statute were retained, as he could personally testify, although omitted ...