Illiterate - Law Dictionary Search Results

Home Dictionary Name: illiterate

Illiterate

Unable to read or write ignorant of letters or books unlettered uninstructed uneducated as an illiterate man or people...

Hant

A contraction of have not or has not used in illiterate speech In the United States the commoner spelling is haint...

Illiteracy

The state of being illiterate or uneducated lack of learning or knowledge ignorance specifically inability to read and write as the illiteracy shown by the last census...

innumerate

Lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods by analogy with illiterate Opposite of numerate...

Lector

A reader of lections formerly a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate...

Missis

A mistress a wife so used by the illiterate...

Patois

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes a provincial form of speech...

Cheats, deceitful practices, in defrauding on endeavouring to defraud another of his known rights, by means of some artful device, contrary to the plain rules of common honesty; as by playing with false dice, by causing an illiterate person to execute a deed to his prejudice, or reading it over to him in words different from those in which it is written; selling one commodity for another, or using false weights and measures, and the like, 1 Hawk. 188. 'If a person in the course of his trade or business, openly and publicly carried on, put a false mark or token upon an article so as to pass it off as a genuine one, when in fact it is only a spurious one, and the article is sold and money obtained by means of that false mark or token, that will be a cheat at Common Law.'-Per Cockburn, C.J., in R. v. Closs, (1857) 27 LJ MC 54. See also R. v. Vreones, (1891) 1 QB 360; R. v. Hamilton, 1901 (1) KB 740.Cheating at play is punishable in like manner as obtaining money by false pretences under t...

<< Prev.
1
2
Next >>
Last >>

Sign-up to get more results

Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.

Start Free Trial