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FRAUD IN THE INDUCEMENT

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To induce someone into performing an act to their detriment using deception or trickery, e.g. a fiduciary tells a client that they are signing an application but cleverly places a check underneath the application with the signature line exposed at the bottom so the client doesn't realize that the signature area is for a check and not for the application. … [Read more...]

FRAY

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See AFFRAY. … [Read more...]

FREE TRADE

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The import and export of goods without quotas, limits or tariffs. … [Read more...]

FRANC ALEU

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In French feudal law. An allod; a free inheritance; or an estate held free of any services except such as were due to the sovereign. … [Read more...]

FRANK-MARRIAGE

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English law. It takes place, according to Blackstone, when lands are given by one man to another, together with a wife who is daughter or kinswoman of the donor, to hold in frank-marriage. By this gift, though nothing but, the word frank-marriage is expressed, the donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten that is, they are tenants in … [Read more...]

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