noun. A deception practiced in order to induce another to give up possession of property or surrender a right.

noun. A piece of trickery; a trick.

noun. undefined

noun. One that defrauds; a cheat.

noun. One who assumes a false pose; an impostor.

To cheat; defraud.

noun. An act or course of deception deliberately practised with the view of gaining a wrong or unfair advantage; deceit; trick; an artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured.

noun. Specifically, in law, an artifice employed by one person for the purpose of deceiving another, to the prejudice of his right; the causing or making use of the error of another for the attainment of an illegal object.

noun. A position artfully contrived to work damage or prejudice; a snare.

noun. A deceiver; a cheat; a pretender; also, a fraudulent production; something intended to deceive.

noun. A person who talks piously, but is not pious at heart; a religious humbug.

noun. 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.

noun. An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

noun. A trap or snare.

noun. an act, statement, or omission which operates as a fraud, although perhaps not intended to be such.

noun. a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means.

noun. 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.

noun. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

noun. The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

noun. A person who performs any such trick.

verb. To defraud

noun. a person who makes deceitful pretenses

noun. intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

noun. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage