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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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