Intent To Defraud - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Intent to defraud, contains two elements viz., deceit and injury. A person is said to deceive another when by practising 'suggestion falsi' or 'suppressioveri' or both he intentionally induces another to believe a thing to be true, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, S. Harnam Singh v. State (Delhi Admn), AIR 1976 SC 2140 (2145): (1976) 2 SCC 819. (Indian Penal Code, s. 447A)...
Forgery
Forgery [fr. forger, Fr.; or fingo, Lat.], the crimen falsi, or the false making or alteration of an instrument, which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud. The forged instrument must be false in itself. The mere subscribing a note, given as the party's own, by a 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, 7th Edn., p. 661.Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), but the law now principally depends on the Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, 'an Act to consolidate, simplify and amend the law relating to forgery and kindred offences.' It repeals such portions of s...
Voluntary conveyance
Voluntary conveyance. A conveyance by way of gift or otherwise without valuable consideration. Liable to be defeated, under 27 Eliz. c. 4, by a 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 the 18th January, 1893: (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 173, reproducing 27 Eliz. c. 4, as amended by the (English) Voluntary Conveyances Act, 1893. Any conveyance made with intent to defeat or delay creditors may be set aside under 13 Eliz. c. 5; see Twyne's Case, (1601) 3 Rep. 80; 1 Sm. L.C., unless the conveyance was made for valuable consideration and in good faith or upon good consideration 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 repr...
Falsification
Falsification.1. Pedigree.--For a vendor or mortgagor or other person disposing of property or any interest therein for money or money's worth to a purchaser of land or chattels real or personal, or for his solicitor or other agent to conceal from the purchaser any instrument or incumbrance material to the title or to falsify any pedigree upon which the title may depend, in order to induce a purchaser or mortgagee or his solicitor to accept the title offered, is a misdemeanour punishable by fine or imprisonment with or without hard labour, or both, for not more than two years, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 183, extend-ing the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 24 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Conveyancing'), and the falsifier is also liable to an action for damages by the same enactment. The fiat of the Attorney-General is required before comm-encing a prosecution. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 183]2. Official Documents.--Making any mat...
Fraudulent conveyances, Statutes against
Fraudulent conveyances, Statutes against, sect. 172 of 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 disentailing assurances or the law of bankruptcy, nor does it extend to conveyances in good faith either for valuable or for good consideration to any person without notice of fradulent intent. This enactment replaces 13 Eliz. c. 5 (A.D. 1570), made perpetual by 29 Eliz. c. 5. See Twyne's case, (1602) 3 Rep 80; 1 Smith's L.C. 1; Halifax Bank v. Gledhill, (1891) 1 Ch 31.The 27 Eliz. c. 4, 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 that person, etc.) to be utterly void. But the Act shall not be construed to defeat or make void any ...
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...
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 falsi' or 'suppressio veri' or both he intentionally induce another to believe a thing to be true, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, S. Harnam Singh v. State (Delhi Admn.), AIR 1976 SC 2140: (1976) 2 SCC 819. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 477A)Pre-supposes a conscious action, while even by negligence one can allow another to do a thing, Om Prakash Gupta v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1957 SC 458 (464). (Penal Code, 1860 s. 405)Wilfully, means deliberately and intentionally, R. v. Senior, (1899) 1 QB 283: 68 LJ QB 175....
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 ...
forge
forge forged forg·ing vt : to make, alter, or imitate (as a writing) falsely with intent to defraud : counterfeit vi : to commit forgery forg·er n ...
forgery
forgery pl: -er·ies 1 : the act of falsely making, altering, or imitating (as a document or signature) with intent to defraud ;also : the crime of committing such an act 2 : something that is forged ...
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