Fraud is both a civil tort and criminal wrong. In civil litigation , allegations of fraud might be based on a misrepresentation of fact that was either intentional or negligent .

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply, or furnish or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, obliga...

2014年12月1日 · Fraud takes place when a person deliberately practices deception in order to gain something unlawfully or unfairly. In most states, the act of fraud can be classified as either a civil or a criminal wrong.

Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage.

Find the legal definition of FRAUD from Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Fraud consists of some deceitful practice or willful device, resorted to withintent to deprive another of his right, or in some manner to do him an...

Fraud is defined by nontechnical standards and is not to be restricted by any common-law definition of false pretenses. One court has observed, "[t]he law does not define fraud; it needs no definition; it is as old as falsehood and as versatile as human ingenuity."

Fraud is an independent criminal offense, but it also appears in different contexts as the means used to gain a legal advantage or accomplish a specific crime. For example, it is fraud for a person to make a false statement on a license application in order to engage in …

fraud. n. the intentional use of deceit, a trick or some dishonest means to deprive another of his/her/its money, property or a legal right.

Actions or words (including failure to act or remaining silent) designed to trick or deceive a person into giving something of value, whether money, property or legal rights, to another.

v. to use deceit, falsehoods or trickery to obtain money, an object, rights or anything of value belonging to another. n. fraudulent acts which keep a person from obtaining information about...