Deceit
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Fr. disceit; Lat. deceptio,] In old English law. A subtle trick or device, whereunto may be referred all manner of craft and collusion used to deceive and defraud another by any means whatsoever, which hath no other or more proper name than deceit to distinguish the offence.
West Symhol, part 2, tit. Indictments, § 68.
Cowell, Jacob.