quotations about fraud
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO
Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 1931
"Fraud," in my opinion, is a term that should be reserved for something dishonest and morally wrong, and much mischief is, I think, done, as well as much unnecessary pain inflicted, by its use where " illegality" and "illegal " are the really appropriate expressions.
J. WILLS
In re Companies Acts; Ex parte Watson, 1888
"Fraud in point of law" is, to my mind, the oddest expression.
B. BRAMWELL
Holland v. Russell, 1863
Fraud is like a balloon. You squeeze it somewhere, and it bulges somewhere else.
CHRISTOPHER WARD
attributed, "PNC testing fraud-busting credit cards with rotating numbers", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 26, 2018
Collusion between two persons, to the prejudice and loss of a third, is, in the eye of the Court, the same as a fraud.
L.C. HARDWICKE
Garth v. Cotton, 1750