election bet

election bet
The subject of a criminal offense as prescribed by statute in most jurisdictions. A transaction, whatever the name given it, the real effect of which, as intended, is that one party may lose, and the other may gain, money or property, or the representative of either may so gain or lose, according to whether the election terminates for or against a particular person, or may result in one way or another. 26 Am J2d Elect § 378. To bet that one of the candidates will or will not obtain a stated number of votes is an election bet. Commonwealth v Brandon, 43 Ky (4 B Mon) 1, 2.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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