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:

    “He showed me that the lines of a good helve
    Were native to the grain before the knife
    Expressed them, and its curves were no false curves
    Put on it from without.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “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)