False pretense
Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
A fraudulent representation of an existing or past fact by one wh'o knows it untrue to induce one to whom it is made to part with something of value.
See 66 Cal. 10, 56 Am. Rep. 73, 4 Pac. 768, 773.