Deceit
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Deceit
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Meaning of Deceit
fraud , cheat , craft or collusion used to deceive and defraud another. In an action of deceit, the plaintiff must prove that he acted on the misrepresentation or false representation made to him by the defendant who knew it to be untrue or false or who made the representation recklessh without regard or without caring whether i: was true or not and intending that the plaintiff should act upon it; he should further prove that he did in fact act upon i: and suffered damage as a result. See Dicke v Brannon, 162 S.E2d 827, 118 Ga.App. 33. See also Work v Campbell, 128 P. 943. 164 C. 343.
Deceit Alternative Definition
A fraudulent misrepresentation or contrivance, by which one man deceives another, who has no means of detecting the fraud, to the injury and damage of the latter. It requires (1) a false representation; (2) inability of the person damaged to prevent the fraud; (3) resultant damage. Deceit is a type of fraud (Bigelow, Frauds, § 1); fraud being the generic term, and deceit being active fraud by misrepresentation, or other positive contrivance.
Synonyms of Deceit
noun
beguilement
camouflage
cheating
collusion
cozenage
craftiness
cunning
deceitfulness
deception
deceptiveness
delusiveness
dissembling
dissimulation
dolus
doubledealing
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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Deceit in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Any devise or false representation by which one man misleads another to his injury. Formerly, the remedy was a "writ of deceit"; now, unless otherwise provided by statute, it is by an "action of trespass on the case". The defendant or his agent must have been guilty of some moral wrong; legal fraud alone will not support the action. Erie City Iron Works v. Barber, 106 Pa. 125, 138, 140 (1884), cases.
Note: This legal definition of Deceit in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
English Legal System: Deceit
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Deceit:
A tort that is committed when someone knowingly or recklessly makes a false statement of fact intending that it should be acted on by someone else and that person does act on the false statement and thereby suffers damage.
See fraud.
Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Deceit
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c. 1300, from Old French deceite, femenine past participle of deceveir (see deceive). Deceit is a shorter and more energetic word for deceitfulness, indicating the quality; it is also, but more rarely, used to express the act or manner of deceiving. The reverse is true of deception, which is properly the act or course by which one deceives, and not properly the quality; it may express the state of being deceived. Fraud is an act or series of acts of deceit by which one attempts to benefit himself at the expense of others. It is generally a breaking of the law; the others are not. [Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, 1902]
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