| Definitions | | deceit |
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noun
- Any attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which mislead, misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
- Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
- (legal):The Tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
Translations: - French: tromperie
- German: Tí¤uschung(de)f, Betrug(de)m
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