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Dishonest intention

Dishonest intention, a person can be said to have 'dishonest intention' if in taking the property it is his intention to cause gain, by unlawful means, of the property to which the person so gaining is not legally entitled or to cause loss, by wrongful means, of property to which the person so losing is legally entitled, K.N. Mehra v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1957 SC 369 (372): 1957 SCR 623. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 378)...


Wrongful gain, wrongful loss

Wrongful gain, wrongful loss, a person can be said to have dishonest intention if in taking the property it is his intention to cause gain, by unlawful means, of the property to which the person so gaining is not legally entitled or to cause loss, by wrongful means, of property to which the person so losing is legally entitled. It is further clear from the definition that the gain or loss contemplated need not be a total acquisition or a total deprivation but it is enough if it is a temporary retention of property by the person wrongfully gaining or a temporary 'keeping out' of property from the person legally entitled, K.N. Mehra v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1957 SC 369 (372). (Indian Penal Code, s. 378 and 23)...


Bad faith

Bad faith, is the opposite of good faith, generally implying or involving, but not limited so, actual or constructive fraud, or a design to mislead or deceive another, or any other sinister motive. Conceptually bad faith can be understood as a 'dishonest intention', Harrison v. Telon Valley Trading Co. Ltd., (2004) 1 WLR 2577.Bad faith, is more appropriate to a consideration of commercial dealings and should not routinely be introduced into a criminal trial because it might confuse to jury and deflect them from their task of deciding whether the public office had been abused by the conduct of office holder, although there might be cases in which the concept of bad faith might be relevant to an assessment of the standard of the defendant's conduct, Attorney-General's Ref. No. 3 of 2003, (2005) LR 73 (QB): (2004) EWCA Crim 868....


Dishonestly

Dishonestly, The word dishonestly is defined by s. 24 of Indian Penal Code. A person who does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person, Dr. S. Dutt v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1966 SC 523: (1966) 1 SCR 493.A person is said to do a thing dishonestly when he does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person. In the case of illegal seizures and impounding of cattle, the person seizing the cattle does not gain anything. He simply takes the cattle to the pound. He does not use them for his purpose, Ramratan v. State of Bihar, AIR 1965 SC 926 (931). (Penal Code, 1860, s. 378: Cattle Trespass Act, 1871, s. 10)--Whoever does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss of another person, is said to do that thing dishonestly (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 24)....


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 ...


Making a false document

Making a false document, A person is said to make a false document-who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document was made, signed or sealed by a competent authority or who without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document in any material part thereof or who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal or execute or alter a document knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot or by reason of deception does not know the nature of the document or the nature of alteration [Indian Penal Code, s. 464]...


Extortion

Extortion [fr. extorqueo, Lat., to wrest away], any oppression under colour of right, as the demanding of a more than legal fee by colour of office. See the Sheriffs Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 55), s. 29(2), (6).The offense committed by a public official who illegally obtain property and or the color of office, esp. an official's collection of an unlawful fee, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 605.Whoever intentionally puts any person in fear of any injury to that person, or to any other, and thereby dishonestly induces the person so put in fear to deliver to any person any property or valuable security, or anything signed or sealed which may be converted into a valuable security, commits 'extortion'. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 383)...


Fraud

Fraud, a fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking 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 1.A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.).A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or con-cealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670.In equity and upon the equitable principles which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described as an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. For the action at law intention and representation (q.v.) are material. In equity an act or its consequences to the person aggrieved may be of greater importance than the intention of the defendant or any representation made to the plaintiff, and the same may b...


Forgery

Forgery [fr. forger, Fr.; or fingo, Lat.], the crimen falsi, or the false making or alteration of an instrument, which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud. The forged instrument must be false in itself. The mere subscribing a note, given as the party's own, by a fictitious name, was held not to be forgery, Reg. v. Martin, (1879) 5 QBD 34.The act of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if genuine, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 661.Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), but the law now principally depends on the Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, 'an Act to consolidate, simplify and amend the law relating to forgery and kindred offences.' It repeals such portions of s...


Waiver

Waiver, in an intentional relinquishment of a known right. There can be waiver unless the person against whom the waiver is claimed had full knowledge of his rights and of facts enabling him to take effectual action for the enforcement of such rights, Dhanukdhari Singh v. Nathina Sahu, (1907) 7 Cal WN 848; Associated Hotels of India Ltd. v. S.B. Sardar Ranjit Singh, AIR 1968 SC 933: (1968) 2 SCJ 441. [Evidence Act, 1872, s. 115]Waiver, is the abandonment of a right in such a way that the other party is entitled to plead the abandonment by way of confession and avoidance if the right is thereafter asserted, and is either express or implied from conduct. A person who is entitled to rely on a stipulation, existing for his benefit alone, in a contract or of a statutory provision, may waive it, and allow the contract or transaction to proceed as though the stipulation or provision did not exist. Waiver of this kind depends upon consent, and the fact that the other party has acted on it is s...


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