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2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 33 - Gambling and Lotteries.
97-33-29 - Gambling; laws remedial, not penal.
§ 97-33-29. Gambling; laws remedial, not penal.
All laws made or to be made for the suppression of gambling or gaming, are remedial and not penal statutes, and shall be so construed by the courts.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 11(7); 1857, ch. 64, art. 146; 1871, § 2610; 1880, § 2856; 1892, § 1133; 1906, § 1215; Hemingway's 1917, § 945; 1930, § 972; 1942, § 2202.
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