legal fraud

legal fraud
noun
comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence
Syn: ↑constructive fraud
Hypernyms: ↑fraud
Hyponyms: ↑fraud in law

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noun
: constructive or equitable fraud for which a court of equity and sometimes a court of law will grant a remedy

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • legal fraud — see fraud Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • legal fraud — Often regarded as synonymous with constructive fraud. Precisely, actual fraud, that is, fraud of which the law will take cognizance as a cause of action or foundation of a defense. Fraud without damage, or damage without fraud gives no cause of… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • fraud — n [Latin fraud fraus] 1 a: any act, expression, omission, or concealment calculated to deceive another to his or her disadvantage; specif: a misrepresentation or concealment with reference to some fact material to a transaction that is made with… …   Law dictionary

  • fraud — An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right. A false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct …   Black's law dictionary

  • fraud — An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right. A false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct …   Black's law dictionary

  • fraud — Deceit, deception, artifice, or trickery operating prejudicially on the rights of another, and so intended, by inducing him to part with property or surrender some legal right. 23 Am J2d Fraud § 2. Anything calculated to deceive another to his… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • legal — 1. Conforming to the law; according to law; required or permitted by law; not forbidden or discountenanced by law; good and effectual in law; of or pertaining to the law; lawful. Freeman v. Fowler Packing Co., 135 Kan. 378, 11 P.2d 276, 277. See… …   Black's law dictionary

  • legal — 1. Conforming to the law; according to law; required or permitted by law; not forbidden or discountenanced by law; good and effectual in law; of or pertaining to the law; lawful. Freeman v. Fowler Packing Co., 135 Kan. 378, 11 P.2d 276, 277. See… …   Black's law dictionary

  • fraud in law — noun fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent • Hypernyms: ↑constructive fraud, ↑legal fraud …   Useful english dictionary

  • fraud in the inducement — see fraud Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. fraud in the inducement …   Law dictionary

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