2. Verb. (third-person singular of cheat) ¹
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Definition of Cheats
1. cheat [v] - See also: cheat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheats
Literary usage of Cheats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"(A.) But not so of cheats where the falsity is not latent and where the fraud is
... Reasons for the distinction between public and private cheats, § 2066. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the by Patrick Colquhoun (1806)
"The different classes of cheats and Swindlers, and the various tricks and devices
they ... cheats, who personate former Masters to defraud their Tradesmen. ..."
3. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"cheats punishable by public prosecution, are of two kinds: 1. By the common law.
2. By statute. ,, jRo|| lor Seer. 1. And first it seemeth, that those which ..."
4. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown by Edward Hyde East (1806)
"It does not distinctly appear that the instances so put in argument, of cheats
effected by means of false tokens gene- rally, were intended to be applied ..."
5. A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions, and Other Sessions of the Peace by William Dickinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1829)
"cheats AND FALSE PRETENCES. 1. cheats at Common Law. 2. ... cheats at common
law.—Mere frauds are not in- cheats at com- dictable at ..."
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