Pretend - Law Dictionary Search Results
Recovery
tenant-in-tail, procured a friend D. (the Demandant) to bring an action for recovery of land against him. A. pretended that he had bought the land from C. and vouched C. to warranty. C. was a man of
Ring-dropping
the circumstances being taken from Patch's case, 2 East, P.C. 678:-The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretends to find a ring wrapt in paper, appearing to be a jeweller's receipt for a 'rich brilliant diamond
Ringing the changes
by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case,
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Sham
Sham, 1. Something that is not what it seems; a counterfeit, 2. A person who pretends to be something that he or she is not; a faker, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1380.
Simulatio latens
disease, in which disease is actually present, but where the symptoms are falsely aggravated, and greater sickness is pretended than really exists, Beck's Med. Jurisp. 3.
Sorcery
abolished by the Witchcraft Act, 1735 (9 Geo. 2, c. 5); but the same Act enacts that persons pretending to use witchcraft, sorcery, etc., shall suffer one year's imprisonment on conviction. Persons using any subtle craft, means,
Titles (Ecclesiastical)
the (English) Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Act, 1851, the assumption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a pretended province or diocese, or archbishop or bishop of a city, place, or territory in England or Ireland, not
Sciolist
One who knows many things superficially a pretender to science a smatterer
VerbarSoi disant
Self named self styled pretended would be
Hypocrite
on a fair outside seeming one who feigns to be other and better than he is a false pretender to virtue or piety one who simulates virtue or piety
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