Cheating - Law Dictionary Search Results
Fraud
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
False pretence, obtaining property
v. Hazleton, (1874) 2 CCR 134. As to guilty knowledge, see R. v. Ollis, (1900) 2 QB 758. Cheating at cards, etc., is punishable as obtaining by false pretence, by the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9
Black-leg
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
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Cosening, Cozenage
Cosening, Cozenage [fr. Cosen], cheating, defrauding.
Hocus
To deceive or cheat
Egregiously
Greatly enormously shamefully as egregiously cheated
Elusion
Act of eluding adroit escape as by artifice a mockery a cheat trickery
Fourb
A tricky fellow a cheat
Gull
To deceive to cheat to mislead to trick to defraud
Cheaters or escheators
Cheaters or escheators, were officers appointed to look after the king's escheats, a duty which gave them great opportunities
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