Apps

Notable quotes

“Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.”
— Benjamin Cardozo, Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 255 N.Y. 170, 179, 174 N.E. 441, 444 (1931).
“Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.”
— Lord Coke, Twyne's Case (1602), 3 Co. 80.
“The Court exercises its jurisdiction for the enforcement of the truth, and makes a man's acts square with his words, by compelling him to perform what he has undertaken.”
— Sir John Romilly, M.R., Laver v. Fielder (1862), 32 Beav. 13.
“As no Court has ever attempted to define fraud, so no Court has ever attempted to define undue influence, which includes one of its many varieties.”
— Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley, L.J., Allcard v. Skinner (1887), L. R. 36 Ch. 183.
“There cannot be a greater Paradox, than that a man should be guilty of a fraud in lending his money with no other prospect but the chance of being repaid it.”
— Lord Mansfield, Foxcroft v. Devonshire (1759), 2 Burr. Part IV. 941.
“You may discuss the question of legality on legal grounds, but not by an argumentum ad hominem.”
— Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet, Trial of Hunt and others (1820), 1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 282.

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