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Undue influence

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undue influence

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Free consent

to be free when it is not caused by-- (1) coercion, as defined in s. 15, or (2) undue influence, as defined in s. 16, or (3) fraud, as defined in s. 17, or (4) misrepresentation, as defined … said to be caused when it would not have been given but for the existence of such coercion, undue influence, fraud, misrepresentation or mistake. [Contract Act, (9 of 1872), s. 14]

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fraud

of a public or private trust or confidence, the breach of a fiduciary duty, or the use of undue influence) called also legal fraud compare actual fraud in this entry equitable fraud : constructive fraud in this entry

Overinfluence

To influence in an excessive degree to have undue influence over

Induce

caused by the pay-ment of the gratification to a third person but by the persuasion or influence (not undue influence) of such third person it will not be possible to say that the gratification had any indirect inducement

Fraud

the parties, are watched with special jealousy, because they afford the means of taking advantage of or exercising undue influence over others; such are transactions between parent and child, attorney and client, principal and agent, guardian and ward,

Spiritualism

VAGRANT. Large gifts byan aged widow to a so-called 'Spiritual Medium' were set aside on the ground of undue influence in Lyon v. Home, (1868) LR 6 Eq 655.

Independent advice

a testator or donor received independent advice before making a disposition is often an important issue in an undue-influence challenge to the property disposition, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 774.

Gift

to be very jealously scrutinized in a Court of Equity, and will be set aside on proof of undue influence (see that title), or of a fiduciary relationship of the donee to the donor, see Huguenin v. Baseley,

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