 | 1804 - 474 páginas
...would be retained, to the exclusion of the fraudulent. Also sharpers, known by the name of duffers, who go about from house to house, and attend public- houses,...gambling scheme, by which the party is plundered of his money, they seldom fail passing forged country bank- notes of base silver and copper in the course... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1818 - 506 páginas
...of instances succeed. A species of cheats, called duffers, go about the streets offering bargains, and attend public houses, inns, and fairs, pretending to sell smuggled goods, of India and other foreign manufacture. By offering their goods for sale, they discover, by long exercised... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - 1824 - 612 páginas
...the exclusion of the fraudulent. Also sharpers known by the name of duffers, who go about from bouse to house, and attend public houses, inns, and fairs,...sale, they are enabled to discover the proper objects which may be successfully practised upon in various ways ; and, if they do not succeed in promoting... | |
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - 1824 - 528 páginas
...would be retained, to the exclusion of the fraudulent. Also sharpers known by the name of duffers., who go about from house to house, and attend public houses, inns, and fairs, pretending to sell imuggled goods, such as India handkerchiefs, waistcoat patterns, muslins, &c. By offering their goods... | |
 | Samuel Leigh - 1827 - 646 páginas
...in a multitude of instances succeed. Cheats, called duffers, go about the streets offering bargains, and attend public houses, inns, and fairs, pretending to sell smuggled goods, of 'ndia and other foreign manufacture. In offering their goods for sale, Ihcy discover, by long-exercised... | |
 | Samuel Leigh - 1830 - 564 páginas
...in a multitude of instances succeed. Cheats, called duffers, go about the streets offering bargains, and attend public houses, inns, and fairs, pretending to sell smuggled goods, of India and other foreign manufacture. In onering their goods for sale, they discover, by long-exercised... | |
 | Samuel Leigh - 1834 - 594 páginas
...in a multitude of instances succeed. Cheats, called duffers, go about the streets offering bargains, and attend public houses, inns, and fairs, pretending to sell smuggled goods, of India, and other foreign manufacture. In offering their goods for sale, they discover, by long-exercised... | |
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... board of police, under whose control they should be placed, while they enter at the same time into a recognizance in a certain sum, with one surety for good behaviour ; by which the honest part would be retained, to the exclusion of the fraudulent.... 