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FRAUD, n. [L. fraus.]

Deceit; deception; trick; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; a stratagem intended to obtain some undue advantage; an attempt to gain or the obtaining of an advantage over another by imposition or immoral means, particularly deception in contracts, or bargain and sale, either by stating falsehoods, or suppressing truth.

If success a lover's toil attends, who asks if force or fraud obtained his ends.
1913 Definition
Fraud (fraud)
n.(fr***add]d)
Fraud
[F. fraude, L. fraus, fraudis; prob. akin to Skr. dh1913 webster dictionaryrv to injure, dhv***rsdot] to cause to fall, and E. dull.]
  1. Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

    If success a lover's toil attends,
    Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.     Pope.

  2. An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.
  3. A trap or snare.
    [Obs.]

    To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud. Milton.

    Constructive fraud (Law), an act, statement, or omission which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended to be such. Mozley *** W. -- Pious fraud (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means. -- Statute of frauds (Law), an English statute (1676), the principle of which is incorporated in the legislation of all the States of this country, by which writing with specific solemnities (varying in the several statutes) is required to give efficacy to certain dispositions of property. Wharton.

    Syn. -- Deception] deceit; guile; craft; wile; sham; strife; circumvention; stratagem; trick; imposition; cheat. See Deception.

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The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
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