Glossary

The participant who takes the other players' bets in some games; the 1966 account said equal chances should include the banker where relevant.

Used in: The 1960 gaming settlement tried to keep commerce away from the table

The nobles who kept the gaming banks, drawn from less wealthy patrician families; according to MUVE, an exception to the mask requirement applied to them.

Used in: Behind the mask at Venice’s Ridotto

A word that can refer to a wider costume as well as the mask: MUVE describes an ensemble involving a mantle and a tricorn hat.

Used in: Behind the mask at Venice’s Ridotto

A game the museum’s 2018 programme described as a popular historical game; the event was a modern museum presentation.

Used in: Behind the mask at Venice’s Ridotto

The date a provision comes into force, set by a commencement order; here staged through 2007 rather than given on the day of Royal Assent.

Used in: How the Gambling Act 2005 classified remote gambling

The statutory instrument that appoints the day an Act, or part of one, comes into force. Several of the Acts here left their start date to one.

Used in: The history of casinos in England, read from the statute book

The company the service's terms name. Keeping it separate is a research method rather than a claim that every service has the same corporate arrangement.

Used in: How did online casinos develop? A history in three records

A statute that gathers earlier provisions into one text, so a later debate may cite a section number the original Act never had.

Used in: The 1960 gaming settlement tried to keep commerce away from the table

The name above the game. It gets a field of its own so that a familiar logo does not carry more information than the evidence supports.

Used in: How did online casinos develop? A history in three records

The institution the 1968 Act created to keep gaming under review, including facilities on licensed or registered premises.

Used in: The 1960 gaming settlement tried to keep commerce away from the table

The numbered column of the official parliamentary report, which is how a statement made in debate is cited.

Used in: The history of casinos in England, read from the statute book

The mathematical expected loss expressed as a proportion of the stake for a defined rule set.

Used in: The history of casinos in England, read from the statute book

Historic England's record of a listed building, giving its grade, its date of listing and what is known of its fabric.

Used in: The history of casinos in England, read from the statute book

The opening sentence of an Act stating what it is for. Quoted in full here because it shows how modest, or how broad, the intention was.

Used in: The history of casinos in England, read from the statute book

A club run for its members rather than as a business; the concession for club charges was intended for genuine ones.

Used in: The 1960 gaming settlement tried to keep commerce away from the table

The permission under the Act for carrying on a gambling activity; section 67 is where the remote category appears on it.

Used in: How the Gambling Act 2005 classified remote gambling

Participation through the internet, telephone, television, radio or any other technology for facilitating communication, as section 4 lists them.

Used in: How the Gambling Act 2005 classified remote gambling

An operating licence that states it is remote and authorises activity in respect of remote gambling or carried on through remote communication.

Used in: How the Gambling Act 2005 classified remote gambling

The public gaming room at Palazzo Dandolo near San Moisè, operated by the Venetian state and connected with the Carnival season.

Used in: Behind the mask at Venice’s Ridotto

The day a Bill becomes an Act. It is a date of passage, not a date on which the law began to bite.

Used in: The history of casinos in England, read from the statute book, The 1960 gaming settlement tried to keep commerce away from the table, How the Gambling Act 2005 classified remote gambling

The software named on or behind the game, recorded apart from the displayed brand and the company.

Used in: How did online casinos develop? A history in three records

Where the screenshot or document came from. Start by recording what is actually legible; an empty field marks the next piece of research to do.

Used in: How did online casinos develop? A history in three records

The amount put at risk in a particular bet.

Used in: The history of casinos in England, read from the statute book, The 1960 gaming settlement tried to keep commerce away from the table, How did online casinos develop? A history in three records

The final Commons stage of a Bill before it passes to the other House; the minister's speech there states the government's case.

Used in: The 1960 gaming settlement tried to keep commerce away from the table

Used on this page for a date that is widely repeated but that no primary document reached here supports.

Used in: The history of casinos in England, read from the statute book

A request to transfer eligible funds out of an account through a supported method.

Used in: How did online casinos develop? A history in three records