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made with a reckless disregard of its truth or the revrse is evidence of fraud. See Derry v. Peek, (1889) 14 AC 337, and FRAUD.

Deceit

Rubber Estates, (1911) 28 TLR 38, and CONCEALMENT [Smith v. Chadwick, (1884) 9 AC 187, and Dery v. Peek, (1889) 14 App Cas 337]. Under the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 37, a special action for deceit

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1929, s. 37 (see DECEIT), was passed in consequence of the decision of the House of Lords in Peek v. Derry (1889) 14 App Cas 337, that directors making an untrue statement in a prospectus which they

Fraud

must be of the fact with knowledge that it was false. In a leading English case, Derry v. Peek, (1886-90) All ER 1: (1889) 14 AC 337: 5 TLR 625, what constitutes fraud was described thus: (All

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goods or animals carried by them. Both before and after the decision of the House of Lords in Peek v. North Staffordshire Ry. Co., (1868) LR 10 HL 473, in which it was held, after summoning the

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