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FRAUDS
(bouvier) | FRAUDS, STATUTE OF. The name commonly given to the statute 29 Car. II., c.
3, entitled "An act for prevention of frauds and perjuries." This statute
has been re-enacted in most. of the states of the Union, generally with
omissions, amendments, or alterations. When the words of the statute have
been used, the construction put upon them has also been adopted. Most of the
acts of the different states will be found in Anthon's Appendix to Shep.
Touchst. See also the Appendix to the second edition of Roberts on Frauds.
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Statute of frauds
(gcide) | Fraud \Fraud\ (fr[add]d), n. [F. fraude, L. fraus, fraudis;
prob. akin to Skr. dh[=u]rv to injure, dhv[.r] to cause to
fall, and E. dull.]
1. Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an
unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right
or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem;
deceit; trick.
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If success a lover's toil attends,
Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.
--Pope.
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2. (Law) An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose
of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
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3. A trap or snare. [Obs.]
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To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. --Milton.
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Constructive fraud (Law), an act, statement, or omission
which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended
to be such. --Mozley & W.
Pious fraud (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to
benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the
theory that the end justified the means.
Statute of frauds (Law), an English statute (1676), the
principle of which is incorporated in the legislation of
all the States of this country, by which writing with
specific solemnities (varying in the several statutes) is
required to give efficacy to certain dispositions of
property. --Wharton.
Syn: Deception; deceit; guile; craft; wile; sham; strife;
circumvention; stratagem; trick; imposition; cheat. See
Deception.
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Yazoo Frauds Act
(gcide) | Yazoo Fraud \Yaz"oo Fraud\ (U. S. Hist.)
The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of
35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for $500,000, to
four companies known as the
Yazoo Companies from the region granted; -- commonly so
called, the act being known as the
Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the
legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in
one or more of the companies. The act granting the land
was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the
repealing provision was incorporated in the State
constitution in 1798. In 1802 the territory was ceded to
the United States. The claims of the purchasers, whom
Georgia had refused to compensate, were sustained by the
United States Supreme Court, which (1810) declared the
repealing act of 1796 unconstitutional. Congress in 1814
ordered the lands sold and appropriated $5,000,000 to pay
the claims.
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