Sham

sham transaction

sham transaction : a transaction that is made to mislead or deceive others : a transaction having no economic effect that is made to create tax benefits NOTE: The Internal Revenue Service may deny tax benefits for sham transactions. ...

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.Sham, means that is not what it seems; a counterfeit, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1380....

sham

sham : something that is false, deceptive, misleading, or otherwise not genuine adj : not genuine : intended to mislead or deceive : false illusory [the sale for one dollar was a transfer of property] ...

sham pleading

sham pleading see pleading ...

Sham plea

Sham plea, a vexatious or false defence, restored to under the old system of pleading for purposes of delay and annoyance...

Duffer

A peddler or hawker especially of cheap flashy articles as sham jewelry hence a sham or cheat...

Benami

Benami, the word 'benami' issued to denote two classes of transactions which differ from each other in their legal character and incidents. In one sense, it signifies a transaction which is real, as for example, when A sells properties to B but the sale deed mentions X as the purchaser. Here the sale itself is genuine, but the real purchaser is B, X being his benamidar. This is the class of transactions which is usually termed as benami. But the word 'benami' is also occasionally used, perhaps not quite accurately, to refer to a sham transaction, as for example, when A purports to sell his property to B without intending that his title should cease or pass to B. The fundamental difference between these two classes of transactions is that whereas in the former there is an operative transfer resulting in the vesting of title in the transferee, in the latter there is none such, the transferor continuing to retain the title notwithstanding the execution of the transfer deed. It is only in ...

Noerr-Pennington doctrine

Noerr-Pennington doctrine [after Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc., 365 U.S. 127 (1961), and United Mine Workers v. Pennington, 381 U.S. 657 (1965), U.S. Supreme Court cases that established the doctrine] : a doctrine based on the First Amendment right of petition that exempts from antitrust liability the joint efforts of businesses to petition or influence government bodies provided that such activities are not sham ...

pleading

pleading 1 a : one of the formal declarations (as a complaint or answer) exchanged by the parties in a legal proceeding (as a suit) setting forth claims, averments, allegations, denials, or defenses ;also : a written document embodying such a declaration see also relation back b : any of the allegations, averments, claims, denials, or defenses set forth in a pleading alternative pleading : a pleading that sets out an alternative theory in support of a plaintiff's claim for relief or a defendant's defense amended pleading : a pleading that is filed to replace an original pleading and that contains matters omitted from or not known at the time of the original pleading re·spon·sive pleading [ri-spÄ n-siv-] : a pleading that directly responds to another pleading (as by denying in an answer allegations in a complaint) sham pleading : a pleading that is factually false, is not made in good faith, and that may be struck supplemental pleading : a pleading that supplem...

Bogus

Spurious fictitious sham a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin and hence denoting anything counterfeit...

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