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  2. Obtaining property by deception - Wikipedia

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    The deception must precede the obtaining of property. In Director of Public Prosecutions v Ray , [ 5 ] the defendant had already obtained the meal before he made the representation. This is an issue of causation so that it can be shown that the deception operated on the mind of the person alleged to be deceived.

  3. False pretenses - Wikipedia

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    False pretenses is a statutory offense in most jurisdictions; subject matter covered by statute varies accordingly, and is not necessarily limited to tangible personal property - some statutes include intangible personal property and services. For example, the North Carolina false pretense statute applies to obtaining "any money, goods ...

  4. Fraud - Wikipedia

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    The requisite elements of perhaps the most general form of criminal fraud, theft by false pretense, are the intentional deception of a victim by false representation or pretense with the intent of persuading the victim to part with property and with the victim parting with property in reliance on the representation or pretense and with the ...

  5. Deception (criminal law) - Wikipedia

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    Yet the deception offences are preserved and are the preferred charges in situations involving deceptive behaviour both because theft carries a lower minimum sentence, and as a matter of general principle, because a charge should describe what the defendant actually did in the simplest and most direct form.

  6. List of types of fraud - Wikipedia

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    In law, fraud is an intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law or criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. [1]

  7. Woman charged after deed to $4M Raleigh home switched ... - AOL

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    The woman who obtained the deed to a multi-million dollar home in Raleigh is now in custody and criminally charged.. Dawn Mangum is accused of obtaining property by false pretense. She was the ...

  8. Theft Act 1978 - Wikipedia

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    This deception must be the cause of the obtaining (see the discussion on causation in Deception (criminal law) and Obtaining property by deception#By any deception). The defendant must obtain a service as defined in section 1(2), i.e. the victim must confer a benefit on the defendant (or another). The 'services' must be non-gratuitous, i.e. the ...

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