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DECEIT [6 records]

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Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Evidence
  • Phraseology
CONT

[The] information she did provide was disingenuous and self-serving. The applicant's testimony was a thinly veiled web of deceit.

OBS

deceit: The action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth. "A web of deceit."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la preuve
  • Phraséologie
CONT

[...] les renseignements qu'elle a fournis étaient fallacieux et intéressés. Le témoignage de la demandeure est un tissu de mensonges à peine voilés.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

... the actionable wrong of making a false statement, knowing it to be false, or without honest belief in its truth or recklessly, not caring whether it be true or false, with the intention that another should rely thereon and act to his detriment and with the result that the other does so act.(Oxford Companion to Law, 1980, p. 340)

OBS

deceit: Legal sense.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
DEF

Délit civil consistant à faire une fausse assertion qui aura pour effet voulu d'amener son destinataire à agir à son détriment.

OBS

dol : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Legal Actions
DEF

An action in tort which lies whenever one person, by a knowingly false statement, intentionally induced another to act upon it to his detriment.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Merchandising Techniques

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques marchandes

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

In a civil action the courts should be less ready to relieve these liars and cheats from tort liability for the consequences of their frauds. Even a minor deceit, if it is reasonably relied on by someone and leads to contact that would not otherwise have been allowed, should lead to tort liability.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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