Webster's 1828 Dictionary provides a definition of "Fraud."
Noah Webster, 1828 Webster's Dictionary, (The Editorium, 1828), "Fraud," accessed December 19, 2022
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.