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Definition of Pretences
1. pretence [n] - See also: pretence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretences
Literary usage of Pretences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe (1888)
"Indictment for obtaining money, etc., by false pretences not to be preferred unless
... Obtaining credit by false pretences. The obtaining credit by false ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"FALSE pretences. Any one who acquires property by means of false pretences has
no legal title to it, and it may be recovered by the party from whom it was ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"Secondly, The omission in charging that the pretences were false cannot be ...
It is true, at the end of the indictment the truth of the pretences used is ..."
4. Principles of the Criminal Law: A Concise Exposition of the Nature of Crime ...by Seymour Frederick Harris, Charles Leete Attenborough by Seymour Frederick Harris, Charles Leete Attenborough (1899)
"FALSE pretences. False pro- IT is difficult to correctly define the offence of
obtaining guished from property by false pretences. ..."
5. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"The pretences were false, and the money waa obtained by their means. ... (id.
by false pretences.it J appeared that the prisoner sold to the prosecutor in a ..."
6. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1868)
"24, § 1, now repealed, provides, " that all persons who knowingly and designedly,
by false pretence or pretences, shall obtain from any person or persons, ..."
7. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"Wyatt, 20 Cox Cr. 462, l KB 188 (obtaining credit for lodging, etc., under false
pretences to W. ; the facts that the accused had left other persons' ..."
8. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"OBTAINING GOODS, ETC., BY FALSE pretences. EVERY one commits a misdemeanor, and
is liable upon conviction thereof to five years penal servitude as a maximum ..."
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