In its moral aspect, although gambling usually has a bad meaning, yet we may apply to it what was said about betting. Moreover, in ordinary parlance, a person who plays for small stakes to give zest to the game is not said to gamble gambling connotes playing for high stakes.
The issue must depend on chance, as in dice, or partly on chance, partly on skill, as in whist. It is not gambling, in the strict sense, if a bet is laid on the issue of a game of skill like billiards or football. It thus belongs to the class of aleatory contracts which the gain or loss of the parties depends on an uncertain event.
Gambling, or gaming, is the staking of money or other thing of value on the issue of a game of chance. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more � all for only $19.99. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download.
