Definition of Fraud in fact

1. Noun. Actual deceit; concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another.

Exact synonyms: Positive Fraud
Generic synonyms: Fraud

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraud In Fact

fraters
fratery
frathouse
frathouses
frati
fratrage
fratricidal
fratricidally
fratricide
fratricides
fratries
fratry
frats
frau
fraud
fraud in fact (current term)
fraud in law
fraud in the factum
fraud in the inducement
fraudful
fraudless
fraudonomics
fraudproof
frauds
fraudster
fraudsters
fraudulence
fraudulences
fraudulency
fraudulent

Literary usage of Fraud in fact

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

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1907)
"Theme was no fraud in fact alleged. It was saM by Judge Jenkins, In delivering the opinion of the court: ‘When the statute (Rev. Stat: Wis. ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"That it is an honest and bona flde debt is a mere circumstance bearing on the question of good faith, when the inquiry is whether there was fraud in fact. ..."

3. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1916)
"... an inferential or ultimate fact.7 A finding that there were no false representations or fraud in fact is a finding against the contention that a promise ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"bis case, and with regard to Wisconsin law, was a fraud in fact, and neither the ... There was no fraud in fact alleged. It was said by Judge Jenkins, ..."

5. A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, Henry Singer Keating, John William Wallace, James Shaw Willes (1855)
"Barnet, adm. ; and that fact alone would be sufficient to authorize the jury to infer fraud in fact, if they saw fit ; Kilby v. Haggin, 3 JJ Marshall, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1904)
"The concluding part of the bill of exceptions alleges, that the depositions were offered to rebut the evidence of fraud in fact, and the evidence of ..."

7. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"The character of the fraud necessary to save a demand or judgment, from the operation of the act, is positive fraud, or fraud in fact, involving moral ..."

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