Suppressio Veri

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

SUGGESTIO FALSI. Suppression of the truth is equivalent to the suggestion of what is false. 23 Barb. (N. Y.) 521, 525. SUPRA (Lat.) Above; upon. SUPRA PROTEST (over protest).

In mercantile law. A term applied to an acceptance of a bill by a third person, after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. 3 Kent, Coram. 87. SUPREMA VOLUNTAS (Lat.) The last will. Et suprema voluntas quod mandat fierique jubet, parere necesse est, and what a last will commands and orders to be done must be obeyed. Doderidge, J., Latch, 137.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Suppression of the truth. See 70 Fed. (U. S.) 631, 17 C. C. A. 300.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat Suppression or concealment of the truth. "It is a rule of equity, as well as of law, that a suppress io veri is equivalent to a suggestio falsi; and where either the suppression of the truth or the suggestion of what is false can be proved, in a fact material to the contract, the party injured may have relief against the contract" Fleming v. Slocum, 18 Johns. (N. Y.) 405, 9 Am. Dec. 224.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

/. Concealment of the truth.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Suppression of truth; concealment of facts. The suppressio veri, as well as the direct suggestio falsi, with which it is often contrasted, is deemed fraud on the part of one bound to disclose the truth. This doctrine is expressed in the form of a maxim: suppressio veri, suggestio falsi, — suppression of truth is equivalent to the statement of what is false. It is a rule of equity as well as of law, that a suppressio veri is equivalent to a suggestio falsi; and where either the suppression of the truth or the suggestion of what is false can be proved, in a fact material to the contract, the party Injured may have relief against the contract. Fleming V. Slocuni, 18 Johns. 403.