False Pretenses

Obtaining property by false pretensesa is the obtaining of property by intentionally misrepresenting a past or existing fact.

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Famous quotes containing the words false and/or pretenses:

    “Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will never again sell anything, even if I have to starve. I am going home now and I will sit down and really write about people.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)