Webster's 1828 Dictionary provides a definition of "Fraud."

Date
1828
Type
Book
Source
Noah Webster
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Noah Webster, 1828 Webster's Dictionary, (The Editorium, 1828), "Fraud," accessed December 19, 2022

Scribe/Publisher
Noah Webster, The Editorium
People
Noah Webster
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

FRAUD, noun [Latin fraus.]

Deceit; deception; trick; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; a stratagem intended to obtain some undue advantage; an attempt to gain or the obtaining of an advantage over another by imposition or immoral means, particularly deception in contracts, or bargain and sale, either by stating falsehoods, or suppressing truth.

If success a lover's toil attends, who asks if force or fraud obtained his ends.

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