Legal Definition and Related Resources of Deception
Meaning of Deception
Synonyms of Deception
noun
- artifice
- beguilement
- blind
- bluff
- camouflage
- charlatanry
- cheat
- chicane
- chicanery
- circumvention
- con
- counterfeit
- cozenage
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deceit
- decoy
- defraudation
- defraudment
- delusion
- device
- disguise
- dishonesty
- dissimulation
- dodge
- doubledealing
- dupery
- duplicity
- equivocation
- fabrication
- fake
- false appearance
- false front
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- feint
- forgery
- fraud
- fraudulence
- fraudulency
- guile
- hoax
- humbuggery
- illusion
- imposition
- imposture
- indirection
- indirectness
- insincerity
- intrigue
- knavery
- legerdemain
- lie
- machination
- masquerade
- mendacity
- mirage
- misrepresentation
- obliquity
- pretext
- prevarication
- rascality
- roguery
- ruse
- sham
- simulacrum
- snare
- stratagem
- swindle
- trap
- trepan
- trick
- trickery
- trickiness
- trumpery
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- unveracity
- wile
- Associated Concepts: confusion
- deception doctrine foreign phrases: Non decipitur qui scit se decipi
- He is not deceived who knows that he is being deceived
- Decipi quam fallere est tutius
- trickery
- trickiness
- trumpery
- untruth
- untruthfulness
- unveracity
- wile
- Associated Concepts: confusion
- deception doctrine foreign phrases: Non decipitur qui scit se decipi
- He is not deceived who knows that he is being deceived
- Decipi quam fallere est tutius
- It is safer to be deceived than to deceive
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Deception in Historical Law
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Deception in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of deception.
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See Also
- Law Enforcement Officer
- Policeman
- Law Enforcement Agency
Further Reading
- deception in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- deception in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
English Legal System: Deception
In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Deception :
A false representation, by words or conduct, of a matter of fact (including the existence of an intention) or law that is made deliberately or recklessly to another perso Deception itself is not a crime, but there are six imprisonable crimes in which deception is involved: (1) Obtaining property. (2) Obtaining an overdraft, an insurance policy, an annuity contract, or the opportunity to earn money (or more money) in a job or to win money by betting. These two offences are punishable by up to ten years’ imprisonment. (3) Obtaining any services (e.g. of a driver or typist or the hiring of a car). (4) Securing the remission of all or part of an existing liability to make payment (whether one’s own or another’s) with intent to make permanent default in whole or in part. (5) Causing someone to wait for or forego a debt owing to him. (6) Obtaining an exemption from or abatement of liability to pay for something (e.g. obtaining free or cheap travel by falsely pretending to be a senior citizen). It is not an offence, however, to deceive someone in any other circumstances, provided there is no element of *forgery or *false accounting.
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