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Misrepresentation
Untrue representation false or incorrect statement or account usually unfavorable to the thing represented as a misrepresentation of a persons motives
Calumny
False accusation of a crime or offense maliciously made or reported to the injury of another malicious misrepresentation slander … False accusation of a crime or offense maliciously made or reported to the injury of another malicious misrepresentation slander detraction
Fraud
reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or surrender a legal right; a false representation of a matter of fact whether by words of by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by … it to his legal injury. In Concise Oxford Dictionary, it has been defined as criminal deception, use of false representation to gain unjust advantage; dishonest artifice or trick. According to Halsbury's Law of England, a representation is deemed
Misrepresentation
is misled and damnified. In equity it is immaterial whether the misrepresent or knew the matter to be false, or asserted it, without knowing if it were true or false; for the affirmance of that which is … of easily accessible means of information. At Common Law, see more fully under the title DECEIT. If the representation amounts to a warranty (q.v.), its untruth is actionable because the person making it has entered into a
Fraud on a power
reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or surrender a legal right; a false representation of a matter of fact whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations or by
False pretence, obtaining property
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Estoppel
title; bringing an action of ejectment is an unequivocal act, Serjeant v. Nash, (1903) 2 KB 304. A false representation to create an estoppel must be a representation of an existing fact and must be acted on before
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