Fraud vs. Misrepresentation

Fraudnoun

(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

Fraudnoun

Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

Fraudnoun

The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

Fraudnoun

A person who performs any such trick.

Fraudnoun

(obsolete) A trap or snare.

Fraudverb

(obsolete) To defraud

Fraudnoun

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Fraudnoun

An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

Fraudnoun

A trap or snare.

Fraudnoun

intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

Fraudnoun

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Fraudnoun

something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.

Misrepresentationnoun

Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.

Misrepresentationnoun

Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, such as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.

Misrepresentationnoun

In map-making, faultiness in a map projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.

Misrepresentationnoun

Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; - usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.

Misrepresentationnoun

a misleading falsehood

Misrepresentation

In common law jurisdictions, a misrepresentation is an untrue or misleading statement of fact made during negotiations by one party to another, the statement then inducing that other party to enter into a contract. The misled party may normally rescind the contract, and sometimes may be awarded damages as well (or instead of rescission).