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Definition of Fraud in law
1. Noun. Fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraud In Law
Literary usage of Fraud in law
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 (1890)
"... or intentional wrong, as does embezzlement, and not implied fraud or fraud in
law, which may exist without the imputation of bad faith or immorality. ..."
2. 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)
"... involving moral turpitude or intentional wrong, and not implied fraud, or
fraud in law, which may exist without imputation of bad faith or immorality. ..."
3. 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)
"But though it is conclusively settled that in case of a mortgage non-delivery is
not a fraud in law, yet it seems that it will, even before forfeiture, ..."