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Intent to defraud
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Forgery
the seals and dies mentioned in the Act, 'the counterfeiting of a seal or die,' and forgery 'with intent to defraud or deceive 'is made punishable as therein provided. A document is 'false' if 'the whole or any material … seal or die in the indictment a, description of it being sufficient; nor to allege or prove an intent to defraud a particular person (s. 17). Forgery was a capital felony until 1832, and in the three years before
Voluntary conveyance
subsequent sale for value, but no voluntary disposition whenever made shall be deemed to have been made with intent to defraud by reason only that a subsequent conveyance for valuable consideration was made if that conveyance was made after … and in good faith to any person not having at the time of the conveyance notice of the intent to defraud creditors [s. 172 (3), (English) Law of Property Act, 1925] This Act (ss. 172 and 173) repeals and
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Falsification
s. 183] 2. Official Documents.--Making any material altera-tion in any official document or in any copy thereof, with intent to defraud or deceive, is felony punishable by penal servitude up to seven years by s. 3(3) of the (English) … any person employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk, officer, or servant, shall wilfully and with intent to defraud, destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any book, paper, writing, valuable security, or account which belongs to or is
Fraudulent conveyances, Statutes against
the (English) L.P. Act, 1925, now provides that every conveyance of property made either or before 1925 with intent to defraud creditors shall be voidable at the instance of any person thereby prejudiced, but the s. does not affect … s. 2, made perpetual by 39 Eliz. c. 18, enacts that every conveyance of lands, made with the intent to defraud and deceive any person, bodies politic or corporate, who shall purchase the same, shall be deemed (as against
False pretence, obtaining property
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 … 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
counterfeit
to make] : made in imitation of a genuine article (as a document) without authorization and esp. with intent to deceive or defraud vt : to make an imitation of without authorization and esp. with intent to deceive
scienter
a mental state in fraud (as securities fraud) that is characterized by an intent to deceive, manipulate, or defraud … element constitutionally required for an obscenity statute "Wall Dist. v. Newport News, 323 S.E.2d 75 (1984)"] ;also : intent to engage in particular esp. criminal conduct [a few environmental statutes…do away altogether with the need to prove …requiring
promise
false promise : a promise that is made with no intention of carrying it out and esp. with intent to deceive or defraud gratuitous promise : a promise that is made without consideration and is usually unenforceable called
Wilfully
Wilfully, 'wilfully' as used ins. 477A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 means 'intentionally' or 'deliberately'. Intent to defraud contains two elements viz., deceit and injury. A person is said to deceive another when by practising 'suggestion
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