Definition of Legal fraud

1. Noun. Comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence.

Exact synonyms: Constructive Fraud
Generic synonyms: Fraud
Specialized synonyms: Fraud In Law

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legal Fraud

legal brief
legal code
legal community
legal dentistry
legal document
legal duties
legal duty
legal eagle
legal eagles
legal entities
legal entity
legal expert
legal fee
legal fiction
legal fictions
legal fraud (current term)
legal guardian
legal guardians
legal holiday
legal injury
legal instrument
legal interest
legal jointure
legal medicine
legal name
legal names
legal opinion
legal ouster
legal pad
legal pads

Literary usage of Legal fraud

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

1. The Principles of Equity: A Treatise on the System of Justice Administered by George Tucker Bispham, Sharswood Brinton (1914)
""I do not understand legal fraud," said Lord Bramwell in Weir v. Bell,4 decided by the Court of Appeal in 1878, "to rny mind it has no more meaning than ..."

2. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"I do not understand legal fraud; to my mind it has no more meaning than legal heat or legal cold, legal light or legal shade." Nevertheless in Smith v. ..."

3. Principles of Contract: Being a Treatise on the General Principles by Frederick Pollock, Franklin Strawn Dickson (1888)
"Lord Bramwell said (as Lord Justice) in the Court of Appeal in 3878: "I do not understand legal fraud. To my mind it has no more meaning than legal heat or ..."

4. The Law Relating to Particulars and Conditions of Sale on a Sale of Land by William Frederick Webster (1889)
"The term "legal fraud" has been ridiculed by Lord Bram- well in Weir v. Bell, 3 Ex. Div. at p. 243. But Sir James Hannen (in Peek v. Derry, 37 Ch. Div. ..."

5. The Dictionary of Legal Quotations: Or, Selected Dicta of English by James William Norton-Kyshe (1904)
"I do not understand legal fraud. To my mind it has no more meaning than legal heat or legal ... There never can be a well-founded complaint of legal fraud, ..."

6. A Selection of Legal Maxims, Classified and Illustrated by Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney (1884)
"The expression legal fraud, which is said to have owed its origin to Lord ... There never can be a well-founded complaint of legal fraud except where some ..."

7. The Canadian Law Times by Armour, Edward Douglas, 1851-1922, Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Elliott, Charles, Privy Council, Gillis, Edward, Hunter, Alfred Taylour, 1867-1957, Thompson, Bram (1904)
"I do not understand legal fraud. To my mind it has no more meaning than legal heat or legal cold, legal light or legal shade." Mr. Justice Williams in ..."

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