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Cheating

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 ...

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...

Overreacher

One who overreaches one who cheats a cheat...

Sharper

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

barratry

barratry pl: -tries [Middle French baraterie deception, from barater to deceive, cheat] 1 : an unlawful act or fraudulent breach of duty by a ship's master or crew that injures the interests of the ship's or cargo's owners often used in marine insurance policies NOTE: Examples of barratry include embezzling cargo, stealing a ship's equipment, or willfully sinking a ship. 2 : the persistent incitement of litigation ...

escheat

escheat [Anglo-French eschete reversion of property, from Old French escheoite accession, inheritance, from feminine past participle of escheoir to fall (to), befall, ultimately from Latin ex- out + cadere to fall] 1 : escheated property 2 : the reversion of property to the state upon the death of the owner when there are no heirs vt : to cause to revert by escheat vi : to revert by escheat es·cheat·able adj ...

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