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Cosening, Cozenage

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

Deceit

Deceit [fr. deceptio, Lat.], fraud, cheat, craft, or collusion used to deceive and defraud another. In an action of deceit the plaintiff must prove

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

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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

Fraud on a power

unfair advantage of another. It is a deception in order to gain by another's loss. It is a cheating intended to get an advantage, C.S.P. Changalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, (1994) 1 SCC 1. In equity has been

Happenstances

Happenstances, can be crudely interpreted as circumstances changed and moulded by time. 'The accident of time has cheated him even as in human affairs generally, be it individual or collective, fortune ebbs and flows, influenced critically

Malpractice

Malpractice, includes dishonesty cheating, imperso-nation, obstruction in carrying out public works as specified in the contract and failure to observe, while submitting

Gypsyism

The arts and practices or habits of gypsies deception cheating flattery

Hocus

To deceive or cheat

Deceitful

Full of or characterized by deceit serving to mislead or insnare trickish fraudulent cheating insincere

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