Conceal

conceal 1 : to prevent disclosure of or fail to disclose (as a provision in a contract) esp. in violation of a duty to disclose 2 a : to place out of sight NOTE: A weapon need only be placed out of ordinary observation in order to be considered a concealed weapon. b : to prevent or hinder recognition, discovery, or recovery of [ing stolen property] con·ceal·ment n ...

Concealment

The act of concealing the state of being concealed...

Concealers

Concealers, such as were used to find out concealed lands, i.e., such lands as are privily kept from the king by common persons, having nothing to show for their title or estate therein, 39 Eliz. c. 23....

Concealment (Criminal)

Concealment (Criminal). (1) Of birth, see BIRTH. (2) Of documents of title to land, or of testamentary instruments, felony by (English) Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), ss. 28, 29, and see (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 183, as to fradulent concealment of documents, and DIRECTORS and PROSPECTUS....

Material concealment of facts

Material concealment of facts, is a concealment of facts which if communicated to the other party to the contract, would induce him either to refuse to agree to it or not to agree to it except on modification of the terms thereof, Elton v. Larkins, 131 ER 376....

Concealment

Concealment, to the injury or prejudice of another. This must amount, in order to be deemed a fraud or to be a ground for rescission of the contract, to be suppression or non-disclosure of facts, which one, under the circumstances, is bound, both legally and equitably, to disclose to another, the latter having an undoubted right to be put in possession of such facts, as in the case of contracts of insurance. See Ionides v. Pender, (1874) LR 9 QB 531, as to marine insurance; and London Assurance Co. v. Mansel, (1879) 11 Ch D 363, as to life insurance, and as to contracts for the sale of land, see Flight v. Booth, 1 Bing NC 377; Terry v. White, 32 CD 29; and PROSPECTUS....

fraudulent concealment

fraudulent concealment : the intentional failure to disclose a material fact and esp. the existence of a cause of action by one under a duty to make such a disclosure to another who acts or fails to act in reliance and suffers a loss ...

Concealable

Capable of being concealed...

Concealer

One who conceals...

Misprision

Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight.All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever, and that, if the Crown so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the misprision only. And upon the same principle, while the court of Star Chamber existed, it was held that the sovereign might remit a prosecution for treason, and cause the delinquent to be censured in that Court, merely for a high misdemeanour; as in the case of Roger, Earl of Rutland, in 43 Eliz., concerned in Essex's rebellion. Every great misdemeanour, according to Coke, which has no certain term appointed by the law, is sometimes called a misprision.Misprisions are divided in the text-books into two kinds:-(1) Negative, the concealment of what ought to be revealed; such is misprision of treason, the bare knowledge and concealment of treason without any ...

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