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de·ceit n: deliberate and misleading concealment, false declaration, or artifice: deceptiontheft by deceit; also: the tort of committing or carrying out deceit
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster. 1996.
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beguilement, camouflage, cheating, collusion, cozenage, craftiness, cunning, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, delusiveness, dissembling, dissimulation, dolus, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, fabrication, fallacia, fallaciousness, falseheartedness, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, forgery, fraud, fraudulence, fraus, furtiveness, indirection, insidiousness, insincerity, jugglery, lying, mendacity, misrepresentation, perfidy, perjury, pretense, prevarication, sham, sneakiness, subreption, surreptitiousness, treachery, trickery, underhanded practice, underhandedness, untruth, untruthfulness
associated concepts: action for fraud or deceit, discovery of the fraud or deceit, fraud or deceit, misrepresentation
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artifice, bad faith, canard, collusion, color (deceptive appearance), deception, dishonesty, evasion, false pretense, falsification, fraud, hoax, hypocrisy, imposture, improbity, indirection (deceitfulness), knavery, lie, misstatement, pettifoggery, pretense (pretext), ruse, story (falsehood), stratagem
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n.A fraudulent misrepresentation used to cheat someone; the act of deceiving someone by lying or misrepresenting the truth.adj.deceitful
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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the tort of making a fraudulent statement committed where the defendant knowingly or recklessly makes a false representation intending that the plaintiff should act upon it where the plaintiff does act and to his detriment: Derry v . Peek (1889) 14 App. Cas. 337. In Scotland similar facts would be litigated as fraud.
Collins dictionary of law. W. J. Stewart. 2001.
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A deliberate misrepresentation made by someone who knew it was false and with the intent to deceive someone who justifiably relies on the falsehood. Deceit is a civil wrong (tort). (See also: fraud)Category: Accidents & InjuriesCategory: Small Claims Court & Lawsuits
Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
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A tort arising from a false statement of fact made by one person, knowingly or recklessly, with the intent that it shall be acted on by another, who suffers damages as a result.Related links
Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. www.practicallaw.com. 2010.
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n.1 The intentional imparting of a false impression.2 A misrepresentation of fact, which, when made with the intention that the other party will rely on it to his detriment, constitutes the torts of fraud or misrepresentation.See also fraud, misrepresentation.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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A misrepresentation made with the express intention of defrauding someone, which subsequently causes injury to that person.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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A misrepresentation made with the express intention of defrauding someone, which subsequently causes injury to that person.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
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n.dishonesty, fraudulent conduct, false statements made knowing them to be untrue, by which the liar intends to deceive a party receiving the statements and expects the party to believe and rely on them. This is a civil wrong (tort) giving rise to the right of a person to sue the deceiver if he/she reasonably relied on such dishonesty to the point of his/her injury.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
