Defraud
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
To defraud is to withhold from another that which is justly due to him, or to deprive him of a right by deception or artifice.
Burdick v. Post, 12 Barb. (N. Y.) 186.
It is not synonymous with "hinder and delay"; Crow v. Beardsley, 68 Mo. 435.
See Fraud.