In Criminal Law. Houses kept for the purpose of per- mitting persons to gamble for money or other valuable thing. They are nuisances in the eyes of the law, being detrimental to the public, as they promote cheating and other corrupt practices; 1 Russ. Cr. 299; Rosc. Cr. Ev. 663; 3 Den. 101. See 53 N. J. L. 664; 85 Me. 237; 53 Mo. App. 571. In an indictment under a statute pro- hibiting gaming houses, the special facts making such a house a nuisance must be verred; Whar. Cr. Law § 1466; Whar. Cr. Pl, and Pr. §§ 154, 230; 5 Cra. 378. The proprietor of a gaming establishment cannot take advantage of a statute enabling a person losing money at a game of chance to recover it back; 14 Bush 538. They are sometimes prosecuted as dis- orderly houses (q. v.).