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Cheating, Cheating is defined as whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces the person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to that, person in body mind, reputation or property, is said to 'cheat' in s. 415 of the IPC and the ingredients for the offence are:(i) there should be fraudulent or dishonest inducement of a person by deceiving him;(ii) (a) the person so induced should be intentionally induced to deliver any property to any person or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or(b) the person so induced should be intentionally induced to do or to omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived; and(iii) In cases covered by the second part of ...
Overreacher
One who overreaches one who cheats a cheat...
Cards
Cards. To keep a common house for card-playing is unlawful.-Gaming Houses Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 38); and see GAMING. Cheating at cards is punishable by the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 100), s. 17. An excise duty of 3d. a pack-i.e., any quantity not exceeding 52-on home-made cards is levied by 25 & 26 Vict. c. 22, and a customs duty of 3s. 9d. per dozen packs on imported cards by the (English) Customs Tariff Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36)...
cardsharp
a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games...
Valuable security
Valuable security, certificates the appellant has been found to have forged to get admission in the Arts and Commerce College affiliated to Poona Univer-sity could not be described as 'valuable security' within the meaning of s. 30 of the Indian Penal Code, Shaikh Noor Mohd. Shaikh Fazal v. State of Maharashtra, (1980) 4 SCC 551: AIR 1981 SC 297 (298). [Penal Code (45 of 1860), ss. 30, 465, 467, 471]The words 'valuable security' denote a document which is, or purports to be, a document whereby any legal right is created, extended, transferred, restricted, extinguished or released, or whereby any person acknowledges that he lies under legal liability, or has not a certain legal right, see also. [Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 (28 of 1961), s. 2, Expl. II; (English) Penal Code, 1860, s. 30]The assessment order is certainly a 'document', under s. 29, IPC. The order of assessment does create a right, in the assessee, in the sense that he has a right to pay tax only on the total amount assesse...
Sacquier
Sacquier, an ancient officer, whose business was to load and unload vessels laden with salt, corn, or fish, to prevent the ship's crew defrauding the merchant by false tale, cheating him of his merchandise, Mar. Law....
Michery
Michery, theft, cheating....
Fraud on a power
Fraud on a power. The name given to the execution of a limited power for a purpose outside its limits, either at the expense of the intended object or to obtain a benefit to the donee of the power orto extend or restrict the appointment beyondthe intention; proof of moral turpitude is not necessary.Is meant an intention to deceive; whether it is from any expectation of advantage to the party himself or from the ill will towards the other is immaterial, Dr. Vimla v. Delhi Administration, (1963) Supp 2 SCR 585 and Indian Bank v. Satyam Febres (India) Pvt. Ltd., (1996) 5 SCC 550. See also State of Andhra Pradesh v. T. Suryachandra Rao, AIR 2005 SC 3110.As is well-known vitiates every solemn act. Fraud and justice never dwell together. Fraud is a conduct either by letter or words, which includes the other person or authority to take a definite determinative stand as a response to the conduct of the former either by words or letter, Ram Chandra Singh v. Savitri Devi, (2003) 8 SCC 319. See a...
Fraud
Fraud, a fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. It is a deception in order to gain by another's loss. It is a cheating intended to got an advantage, S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, AIR 1994 SC 853 (855): (1994) 1 SCC 1.A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.).A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or con-cealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670.In equity and upon the equitable principles which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described as an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. For the action at law intention and representation (q.v.) are material. In equity an act or its consequences to the person aggrieved may be of greater importance than the intention of the defendant or any representation made to the plaintiff, and the same may b...
False pretence, obtaining property
False pretence, obtaining property, this offence, though allied to larceny, is distinguishable from it, as being perpetrated through the medium of a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 32:-Every person who, by any false pretence:(1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money or valuable security, or causes or procures any money to be paid or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person; or(2) with intent to defraud or injure any other person fradulently causes or induces any other person:(a) to execute, make, accept, endorse or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security; or(b) to write, impress or affix his name or the name of any other person, or the seal of any corporate body or society, upon any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt wi...
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