fraud : Idioms & Phrases

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collateral fraud

  • noun fraud that prevents a party from knowing their rights or from having a fair opportunity of presenting them at trial
    collateral fraud.
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Constructive fraud

  • noun comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence
    constructive fraud.
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  • (Law), an act, statement, or omission which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended to be such. Mozley & W.
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election fraud

  • noun misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election
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extrinsic fraud

  • noun fraud that prevents a party from knowing their rights or from having a fair opportunity of presenting them at trial
    collateral fraud.
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fraud in fact

  • noun actual deceit; concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another
    fraud in fact.
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fraud in law

  • noun fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent
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fraud in the factum

  • noun fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed; e.g., leading someone to sign the wrong contract
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fraud in the inducement

  • noun fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute and instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment; e.g., misleading someone about the true facts
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intrinsic fraud

  • noun fraud (as by use of forged documents or false claims or perjury) that misleads a court or jury and induces a finding for the one perpetrating the fraud
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  • noun comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence
    constructive fraud.
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mail fraud

  • noun use of the mails to defraud someone
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Pious fraud

  • (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means.
Webster 1913

positive fraud

  • noun actual deceit; concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another
    fraud in fact.
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Statute of frauds

  • (Law), an English statute (1676), the principle of which is incorporated in the legislation of all the States of this country, by which writing with specific solemnities (varying in the several statutes) is required to give efficacy to certain dispositions of property.
Webster 1913