Chapter I: Gambling and betting.

The law grants no action for a gambling debt or for the payment of a bet.

Games suitable for practising the use of weapons, foot or horse races, chariot races, the game of palms and other games of the same nature which have to do with skill and the exercise of the body, are excepted from the preceding provision. Nevertheless, the court may reject the claim when the sum appears excessive.

In no case may the loser repeat what he has voluntarily paid, unless there has been fraud, deceit or swindle on the part of the winner.