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Definition of False pretence

1. Noun. (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation.

Lexicographical Neighbors of False Pretence

Literary usage of False pretence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe (1888)
"It was held by the Common Serjeant after consulting Stephen, J., that the obtaining the prize was too remotely connected with the false pretence. R. v. ..."

2. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"Whosoever with intent to defraud or injure any other* person, shall by any false pretence fraudulently cause or induce any other person to execute ..."

3. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
"In general terms, a false pretence was defined in a Massachusetts case to be, ... 7 A fuller and practically better definition would be: A false pretence is ..."

4. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"By means of the false pretence. ... the means and instrumentality of the *'lc e false pretence, although a previous confidence subsisted which rendered that ..."

5. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"A obtains two pointers worth £5 each by a false pretence. This is not an offence within this Article. (2.) 2 A orders a van from B, and gets it made and ..."

6. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"Obtaining by false token, or writing, or false pretence, the signature to a ... Obtaining by false pretence, or token, property, &i , or signature to paper ..."

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