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Cosening, Cozenage

Cosening, Cozenage [fr. Cosen], cheating, defrauding....


Cheats

Cheats, deceitful practices, in defrauding on endeavouring to defraud another of his known rights, by means of some artful device, contrary to the plain rules of common honesty; as by playing with false dice, by causing an illiterate person to execute a deed to his prejudice, or reading it over to him in words different from those in which it is written; selling one commodity for another, or using false weights and measures, and the like, 1 Hawk. 188. 'If a person in the course of his trade or business, openly and publicly carried on, put a false mark or token upon an article so as to pass it off as a genuine one, when in fact it is only a spurious one, and the article is sold and money obtained by means of that false mark or token, that will be a cheat at Common Law.'-Per Cockburn, C.J., in R. v. Closs, (1857) 27 LJ MC 54. See also R. v. Vreones, (1891) 1 QB 360; R. v. Hamilton, 1901 (1) KB 740.Cheating at play is punishable in like manner as obtaining money by false pretences under t...


Michery

Michery, theft, cheating....


Black-leg

Black-leg. To call a man a 'black-leg' is not actionable unless it can be shown that the word was understood by the bystanders to mean 'a cheating gambler liable to be prosecuted as such', Barnett v. Allen, (1858) 3 H&N 376. The term is applied to a man who refuses to join, or follow the ruling of, a Trades Union in times of disputes between employer and employee....


Imposture

The act or conduct of an impostor deception practiced under a false or assumed character fraud or imposition cheating...


Sharper

A person who bargains closely especially one who cheats in bargains a swinder also a cheating gamester...


Fubbery

Cheating deception...


Gypsyism

The arts and practices or habits of gypsies deception cheating flattery...


Imposturage

Imposture cheating...


invigilation

keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating...



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