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artifice

artifice : a clever strategy usually intended to deceive or defraud ...

Artificers

Artificers, persons who are masters of their art, and whose employment consists chiefly in manual labour. See (English) Truck Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 37)....

Material resources, 'Material resources' is enshrined in art. 39(b) are wide enough to cover not only natural or physical resources but also movable or immovable properties. The mere fact that the resources are material will make no difference in the concept of the word 'resources'. Black's Law Dictionary defined the word recourses thus: Money or any property that can be converted to meet needs; means of raising money or supplies; capabilities of raising wealth or to supply necessary wants. The mere fact that the resources are material will make no difference in the concept of the word recourse. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Vol. 3) at page, 1634, the word material is defined thus: Materials tools or implements, to be used by such artificer in this trade or occupation, if such artificer be employed in mining; wooden props or 'sprags' though neither 'tools or implements' were 'materials' within these words. 'Material' includes a painter's bucket of distemper and brush. In Webster's T...

deceit

deceit : deliberate and misleading concealment, false declaration, or artifice : deception [theft by ] ;also : the tort of committing or carrying out deceit [an action for ] see also fraud, misrepresentation ...