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C 7
Of Sharping or Fraudulent Obtainment. Of Defraudment
3. It matters not by what means the false suggestion
or the false notion inculcated by the behaviour
in question was conveyed to the person
from whom the thing was obtained. See Theft
Note on the word [Takes] (C)
Note.
question upon such and such contingencies.
Let the stake for instance depend upon the
cast of a die. One fact which is presumed between
two persons who play with dice is that neither
party shall use or has used any art to make
the dice turn up one way rather than another.
If then any such art be employed the not discovering
it but demanding or receiving the stake
which by the terms of the implied agreement
was to be paid only in case the dice turned
up in the way in question without the using
any such art to cause them so to do, or the
behaving in any other way as if no such arts
were employed is a tacit way of suggesting that
they were not employed.
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Identifier: | JB/071/146/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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071 |
penal code |
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146 |
of defraudment |
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003 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
f5 / f6 / f7 / f8 |
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