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Imposture

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

invigilation

keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating

invigilator

someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating

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Outcheat

To exceed in cheating

Paum

To palm off by fraud to cheat at cards

Skelder

To deceive to cheat to trick

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

Sacquier

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.

Cheaters or escheators

Cheaters or escheators, were officers appointed to look after the king's escheats, a duty which gave them great opportunities

Conspiracy

and imprisonment to any extent; and also with hard labour in the case of ' any conspiracy to cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct,

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