Chapter 137

Section 1. Whoever, by playing at cards, dice or other game, or by betting on the sides or hands of those gaming, except for gaming conducted in licensed gaming establishments pursuant to chapter 23K or sports wagering conducted pursuant to chapter 23N, loses to a person so playi…

Section 2. The owner, tenant or occupant of a house or building, but not including an owner or operator of a gaming establishment licensed pursuant to chapter 23K or an operator who offers sports wagering pursuant to chapter 23N, where money or goods are lost, paid or delivered i…

Section 3. Notes, bills, bonds, mortgages or other securities or conveyances the whole or part of the consideration of which is money or goods won by gaming or playing at cards, dice or any other game, or by betting on the sides or hands of persons gaming, or for repaying or reim…

Section 4. Whoever upon credit or upon margin contracts to buy or sell, or employs another to buy or sell for his account, any securities or commodities, intending at the time that there shall be no actual purchase or sale, may recover in contract from the other party to the cont…

Section 5. If, in a case under the preceding section, the money or property paid or delivered has been stolen, embezzled or fraudulently or wrongfully used by the party entitled to recover under said section, the person to whom it rightfully belongs may in his own name recover it…

Section 6. In a proceeding under either of the two preceding sections, if the person so employed does not make an actual transaction relieving him from liability under section four, the fact that the seller or the person employing another to sell for his account did not own the s…

Section 7. In the three preceding sections, the word ''securities'' shall include all evidences of debt or property and options for the purchase and sale thereof, shares in any corporation, joint stock company or association, bonds, coupons, scrip, rights, choses in action and ot…