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Definition of Positive fraud
1. Noun. Actual deceit; concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent to cause injury to another.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Positive Fraud
Literary usage of Positive fraud
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)
"... not relieved by a discharge in bankruptcy means "positive fraud, or fraud In
fact involving moral turpitude or intentional wrong, as does embezzlement, ..."
2. An Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence: On the Basis of Story's by James Philemon Holcombe (1846)
"ACTUAL OR positive fraud. 1. WHAT is FRAUD, AND EXTENT OP EQUITABLE JURISDICTION.
2. RULES OF EVIDENCE, APPLICABLE TO IT IN EQUITY. 3. ..."
3. A Law Dictionary: Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1843)
"An actual or positive fraud is the intentional and successful employment of any
cunning, deception or artifice, used to circumvent, cheat or deceive another ..."
4. Selected Cases on the Law of Property in Land by William Albert Finch (1904)
"Rule in cases where licensee has paid consideration, or has incurred expense in
executing the license and there is no positive fraud t CROSDALE v. LANIGAN. ..."
5. Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England and America by Joseph Story (1886)
"Many other cases might be put, illustrative of what is denominated actual or
positive fraud.4 Among these are cases of the fraudulent suppression or ..."
6. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1890)
"The jury must determine for themselves whether this was such a fraud as we have
stated, ie, a positive fraud. If they knew that the title was not in the ..."
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