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Definition of Defrauds
1. defraud [v] - See also: defraud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defrauds
Literary usage of Defrauds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States of by United States, William Mark McKinney, Thomas H. Calvert, Edward Thompson Company (1917)
"23, does not in- punishment for a distiller who defrauds US ». Ridenour, (1902)
119 Fed. 415. SEC. 42. [Use of wine spirits to fortify pure sweet wines. ..."
2. The History of Banking: With a Comprehensive Account of the Origin, Rise by William John Lawson (1855)
"Bank obtain a renewal of their Charter to 1833—Consideration given for the same—A
Bank clerk defrauds the Corporation of 300000/.—His trial and ingenious ..."
3. History of Dakota Territory by George Washington Kingsbury (1915)
"... York in the Federal Senate, basely defrauds and betrays his own constituents,
unless he can find a better reason for his vote than the expectation that ..."
4. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1916)
"... as against the machinations of the designedly wicked ;ie that a defrauded
party does not owe to the one who defrauds him an obligation to use diligence ..."
5. The Trollopiad, Or, Travelling Gentlemen in America: A Satire by Frederick William Shelton (1837)
"He leaps on board, his distance fairly saves, defrauds his tailor, and his barber
shaves. * This may call up an unpleasant crisis in the life of many a ..."
6. The Utility of All Kinds of Higher Schooling: An Investigation by Richard Teller Crane (1909)
"HOW THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN defrauds THE STATE. The substance of what I have
said thus far on agricultural colleges was published about a year ago, ..."
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