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  2. Lie - Wikipedia

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    For example, when the seller of a car declares it has been serviced regularly, but does not mention that a fault was reported during the last service, the seller lies by omission. It may be compared to dissimulation. An omission is when a person tells most of the truth, but leaves out a few key facts that therefore, completely obscures the ...

  3. Omission (law) - Wikipedia

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    In law, an omission is a failure to act, which generally attracts different legal consequences from positive conduct. In the criminal law , an omission will constitute an actus reus and give rise to liability only when the law imposes a duty to act and the defendant is in breach of that duty.

  4. Omissions in English criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Lush LJ held that whilst an omission could constitute an act of murder, because there was no statutory duty for the railway to provide a watchman, there could not be any criminal liability. [8] However, thirty years later, in the case of R v Pittwood, [9] the court adopted a different stance to a case of similar facts. In this case, a ...

  5. Omission - Wikipedia

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    Omission may refer to: Sin of omission, a sin committed by willingly not performing a certain action; Omission (law), a failure to act, with legal consequences; Omission bias, a tendency to favor inaction over action; Purposeful omission, a literary method; Theory of omission, a writing technique; The Omission, a 2018 Argentine film

  6. Deception - Wikipedia

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    Most lies and misinformation are spread commonly through emails and instant messaging since these messages are erased faster. [15] Without face to face communication, it could be easier to deceive others, making it difficult to detect the truth from a lie. These unreliable cues allow digital deception to easily influence and mislead others. [16]

  7. Tips for how to tell if someone is deceiving you - AOL

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    Former Secret Service agent Evy Pompouras talks with Andrea Canning on the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast about how to tell if someone is lying to you.

  8. Sin of omission - Wikipedia

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    In Christianity, a sin of omission is a sin committed by willingly not performing a certain action. The theology behind a sin of omission derives from James 4:17, which teaches "Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin." [1] Its opposite is the sin of commission, i.e. a sin resulting from an action performed.

  9. Perjury - Wikipedia

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    Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.