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Fraud

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Any deceitful practice used in depriving or endeavoring to deprive another of his known right by means of some artful device or plan contrary to the plain rules of common honesty.

See 5 Pa. St. 216, 47 Am. Dec. 408.