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Falsi crimen

Falsi crimen, fraudulent subornation or conceal-ment, with design to darken or hide the truth, and make things appear otherwise than they

Malversation

Evil conduct fraudulent practices misbehavior corruption or extortion in office

Fraudulently

In a fraudulent manner

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Embezzle

To appropriate fraudulently to ones own use as property intrusted to ones care to apply to ones private uses by a

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

Good faith

collusion or deceit; really, actually, without pretence and without intent to assist or act in furtherance of a fraudulent or otherwise unlawful scheme'. (see WORDS AND PHRASES, Permanent Edition, Vol. 18-A, page 91). Although the meaning of

Winding-up

claims of the general creditors. Transactions which would be avoided against an individual in his bankruptcy as a fraudulent preference (Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 44, see FRAUDULENT PREFERENCE) are avoided by s. 265, the commencement of the

Fraud

which have been declared to be or treated as fradulent by statute, see MISFEASANCE; PROSPECTUS; WINDING-UP; FRADULENT PREFERENCE; FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCES; PASSING OFF. Fraud and collusion vitiate even the most solemn proceedings in any civilised system of jurispru-dence.

Forgery

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,

Directors

Act is entitled to contribution from his co-directors, unless the co-directors were innocent, and he was guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation, thus forming an exception to the old rule of Merryweather v. Nixan, (1799) 8 TR 196, that

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