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:

    “Description is revelation. It is not
    The thing described, nor false facsimile.
    It is an artificial thing that exists,
    In its own seeming, plainly visible,
    Yet not too closely the double of our lives,
    Intenser than any actual life could be....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “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)