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LEGAL FRAUD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence
Synonyms:
constructive fraud; legal fraud
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("legal fraud" is a kind of...):
fraud (intentional deception resulting in injury to another person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal fraud"):
fraud in law (fraud that is presumed from the circumstances although the one who commits it need not have had any evil intent)