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false representation : an untrue or incorrect representation regarding a material fact that is made with knowledge or belief of its inaccuracy see also misrepresentation ...
False representation
False representation. See DECEIT and REPRESENTATION....
False pretence, obtaining property
False pretence, obtaining property, this offence, though allied to larceny, is distinguishable from it, as being perpetrated through the medium of a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 32:-Every person who, by any false pretence:(1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money or valuable security, or causes or procures any money to be paid or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person; or(2) with intent to defraud or injure any other person fradulently causes or induces any other person:(a) to execute, make, accept, endorse or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security; or(b) to write, impress or affix his name or the name of any other person, or the seal of any corporate body or society, upon any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt wi...
false pretenses
false pretenses : false representations concerning past or present facts that are made with the intent to defraud another ;also : the crime of obtaining title to another's property by false pretenses compare larceny by trick at larceny, theft ...
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...
Fraud on a power
Fraud on a power. The name given to the execution of a limited power for a purpose outside its limits, either at the expense of the intended object or to obtain a benefit to the donee of the power orto extend or restrict the appointment beyondthe intention; proof of moral turpitude is not necessary.Is meant an intention to deceive; whether it is from any expectation of advantage to the party himself or from the ill will towards the other is immaterial, Dr. Vimla v. Delhi Administration, (1963) Supp 2 SCR 585 and Indian Bank v. Satyam Febres (India) Pvt. Ltd., (1996) 5 SCC 550. See also State of Andhra Pradesh v. T. Suryachandra Rao, AIR 2005 SC 3110.As is well-known vitiates every solemn act. Fraud and justice never dwell together. Fraud is a conduct either by letter or words, which includes the other person or authority to take a definite determinative stand as a response to the conduct of the former either by words or letter, Ram Chandra Singh v. Savitri Devi, (2003) 8 SCC 319. See a...
Estoppel
Estoppel, a conclusive admission, which cannot be denied. It is of three kinds:-(1) By matter of record, which imports such absolute and incontrovertible verity, that no person against whom it is producible shall be permitted to aver against it. A record concludes the parties thereto, and their privies, whether in blood, in law, or by estate, upon the point adjudged, but not upon any matter collateral or adjudged by inference, A judgment in an action in rem is absolutely binding upon all the world.A conviction on the same facts is no estoppel in a civil action because the parties are not the same, Palace Shipping Co. v. Caine, 1907 AC 386.(2) By deed. No person can be allowed to dispute his own solemn deed, which is therefore conclusive against him, and those claiming under him, even as to the facts recited in it. The general rule is that an indenture estops all who are parties to it, while a deed-poll only estops the party who executesit, since it is his sole language and act, Shep. T...
misrepresentation
misrepresentation : an intentionally or sometimes negligently false representation made verbally, by conduct, or sometimes by nondisclosure or concealment and often for the purpose of deceiving, defrauding, or causing another to rely on it detrimentally ;also : an act or instance of making such a representation ...
Calumniation
False accusation of crime or offense or a malicious and false representation of the words or actions of another with a view to injure his good name...
A.B
A.B. Able-bodied seaman, having served at sea for three years before the mast, (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57&58 Vict, e. 60), s. 126, as amended by Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 148), s. 58. Any false statement or false representation for the purpose of obtaining a rating as A.B. renders the offender liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds. [(English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, s. 58(2)]...
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