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Definition of Pretenses
1. pretense [n] - See also: pretense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretenses
Literary usage of Pretenses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1892)
"FALS« pretenses — INDICTMENT— SUFFICIENCY. — An indictment for obtaining money
or other property under false pretenses, framed in the words of the statute, ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"Although in certain states the indictment usually contains a direct allegation
that the person alleged to be defrauded believed the pretenses to be true, ..."
3. Principles of Criminal Law by Seymour Frederick Harris, Avlet Agabeg, Manning Ferguson Force (1885)
"FALSE pretenses. IT is difficult to correctly define the offense of obtaining
property by ... The most intelligible distinction between false pretenses and ..."
4. A Treatise on the Criminal Law as Now Administered in the United States by Emlin McClain (1897)
"Several pretenses.— The indictment may allege several false pretenses ... Nor is
it necessary to set out in the indictment all the false pretenses used, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"False pretenses. Evidence to show the intention of the owner. The intent to defraud.
... The pretenses made and evidence to show their falsity. ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"False pretenses are false representations and statements, ... Aл allegation that
one obtained the goods of another by false pretenses or by cheating is not ..."
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