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Definition of Fraudulent scheme

1. Noun. An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fraudulent Scheme

Literary usage of Fraudulent scheme

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 (1904)
"In the latter case the court said: [•10] *"The theory upon which the decision pro- ceeded was that they [Bullis and Barse] devised a fraudulent scheme for ..."

2. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1918)
"There is no rule that the description of a fraudulent scheme should mention all the ancillary devices." White- head v. VS, (CCA 5th Cir. 1917) 245 Fed. ..."

3. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1919)
"777, 75 С. С. A. 30, letter sent in furtherance of fraudulent scheme, although it contained no indictable representations; Ewing v. United States, 136 Fed. ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"Furthermore, in order to constitute a crime, the mailing of the letter must have been a step in the execution of the fraudulent scheme. ..."

5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"To constitute the offense it is not necessary that the defendant should be the originator of the fraudulent scheme in which he participates. ..."

6. Digest of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States ...by United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company by United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"Held, that the letters need not have been such as would be effective in carrying out the fraudulent scheme. — Id. The offense of using the mails in ..."

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