False pretenses or obtaining property by false pretenses is when a person Under common law, false pretense is defined as a representation of a present...
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In addition to being criminally accountable for obtaining property by false pretenses, the wrongdoer may also be liable in a civil court. v. Jones, 1898, L.R. I Q.B. ff9 decided that it is neither larceny nor false pretences, but an offence under the Debtors Act 1869, of obtaining credit by fraud.
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Kellie Pickler's father is scheduled to appear in court on July 9 in Albemarle, N.C., after being arrested Friday (May 18) on a felony count of obtaining property under false pretense and three felony counts of larceny of a motor vehicle. May 23, 2007 Clyde "Bo" Pickler Jr., 42, is accused of stealing abandoned and...
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Obtaining property by false pretenses. (a) If any person shall knowingly and designedly by .... Obtaining advances under promise to work and pay for same.
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False Pretenses and Cheats. § 14‑100. Obtaining property by false pretenses. (a) If any person shall knowingly and designedly by means of any kind of false...
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Also, WND lists specific zoning violations that would be impossible for PP to fix without destroying the building and purchasing extra property for parking: The project also fails to comply with the 35-foot setback requirements and parking-related minimums under its city zoning. The zoning calculations require 95...
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Because the judgment for obtaining property by false pretenses was vacated, to uphold a conviction for obtaining property under false pretenses.
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9.1-7 Larceny by Obtaining Property by False Pretenses -- § 53a-119 (2) and §§ 53a-122 through If the legal title or ownership of the property or some legal interest in the property is transferred, such a transfer would constitute "obtaining" under the statute. The property does not need to be physically obtained.
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Clarence Darrow's Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail. Some of you are here for obtaining property under false pretenses — yet I pick up a great Sunday paper and read the advertisements of a merchant prince — “Shirt waists for 39 cents, marked down from $3.00.”...
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In 1995, Helen Mary Provenzano was arrested in Durham on three counts of obtaining property under false pretenses. The judge found Andrea's allegation to be false and awarded the tenant a $100,000 punitive judgment. The tenant said he has never been paid.
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