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" fraud in the sense of a court of equity properly includes all acts, omissions, and concealments which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence, justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious... "
The New York Supplement - Page 329
1890
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Chancery of the State of ..., Volume 32

New Jersey. Court of Chancery - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 942 pages
...(which is the kind the common law deals with), and constructive fraud, a creature of equity, which includes all acts, omissions and concealments which...confidence justly reposed, and are injurious to another. 1 Story's Eq. Jur. (10th ed.) § 187. The respondent meets this defence by alleging that the consideration...
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Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - Equity - 1839 - 658 pages
...constructive frauds, which are within the remedial jurisdiction of a Court of Equity. Fraud, indeed, in the sense of a Court of Equity, properly includes...are injurious to another, or by which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another. 5 And Courts of Equity will not only interfere in cases...
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An Introduction to Equity Jurisprudence: On the Basis of Story's ...

James Philemon Holcombe - Equity - 1846 - 376 pages
...would be subjected to forfeiture, - - 299 FRAUD. Courts of Equity careful not to define it, - 43 it includes all acts, omissions, and concealments, which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, injurious to another, - - - 43 comparative extent of the two jurisdictions, to relieve against fraud,...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volume 2

James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...court of equity fraud includes all acts, omissions and concealments, which involve a breach of either legal or equitable duty, trust or confidence justly reposed, and are injurious to another. See infra, p. 561. A court of chancery will exercise the power of setting aside judgments and decrees...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 6

Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1849 - 714 pages
...Jurisprudence, 216, §207. In Belcher vs. Belcher, (10 Yerger's Rep. 121,) it was held, that fraud, in a Court of Equity, properly includes all acts, omissions, and concealments, which involve a breach of either legal or equitable duty, trust or confidence, justly reposed, and are injurious to another,...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 11

Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1853 - 782 pages
...of sustaining that charge. [3.] But it is said, there is no fraud charged in the complainants' bill. Fraud, in the sense of a Court of Equity, properly includes all arts, omissions and concealments, which involve a breach of legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence...
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Institutes of American Law, Volume 4

John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 756 pages
...not only all the class of positive frauds such as the definition includes, but many others. In equity all acts, omissions, and concealments, which involve a breach of legal or equitable obligation or duty, trust or confidence, justly reposed, and which are injurious to another, or by...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Determined in the Supreme ..., Volume 3

Iowa. Supreme Court, George Greene (Reporter) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 646 pages
...a large clasR, which are established by legal implication. " Fraud, indeed, in the sense of a fonrt of equity properly includes all acts, omissions, and...justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by Powell v. Spaulding. which an undue and unconscientious advantage is taken of another. And courts of...
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Commentaries on American Law, Volumes 1-4

James Kent - Law - 1858 - 966 pages
...court of equity, fraud includes all acts, omissions, and concealments, which involve a breach of either legal or equitable duty, trust, or confidence justly reposed, and are injurious to another. See infra, p. 561. 1 The vendor is not bound to disclose a defect, which once existed, if he believes...
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Wisconsin Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Volume 12

Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 774 pages
...equitable fraud is well defined by Judge Story (1 Story's Eq. Jur., § 187). He says : "Fraud, indeed, in the sense of a court of equity, properly includes...and are injurious to another, or by which an undue or unconscientious advantage is taken of another." The presumption of law is in favor of the justice...
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