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  2. Tort of deceit - Wikipedia

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    The leading case in English law is Derry v.Peek, [2] which was decided before the development of the law on negligent misstatement. In Hedley Byrne & Co Ltd v.Heller & Partners Ltd it was decided that people who make statements which they ought to have known were untrue because they were negligent, can in some circumstances, to restricted groups of claimants be liable to make compensation for ...

  3. Obtaining property by deception - Wikipedia

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    The Law Commission has debated whether the requirement to prove dishonesty makes obtaining a conviction more difficult, and whether the law should be reformed to make the offences conduct based. The conclusion was that juries are not confused by the need to consider dishonesty as a separate element from deception and that this aspect of the law ...

  4. 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.

  5. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception - Wikipedia

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    (1) A person who by any deception dishonestly obtains for himself or another any pecuniary advantage shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. (2) The cases in which a pecuniary advantage within the meaning of this section is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where:- (a) . . .

  6. Deception (criminal law) - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, a man dressed as a police officer who instructs someone to act in a particular way because 'the law requires it,' or a lawyer or accountant who relies on their professional status to mislead a client as to the law for their private benefit, deceives even though the general policy of English law is ignorantia juris non excusat, i.e ...

  7. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Miller's law, in communication: "To understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of." Named after George Armitage Miller . Miller's rule , in optics, is an empirical rule which gives an estimate of the order of magnitude of the nonlinear coefficient.

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  9. 11 Companies That Caught Lying To The Public, Deceived Customers

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    Pixabay/Public Domain[/caption] 8. Olay. Olay indulged in misrepresenting their product, when they retouched a model’s photo for their eye cream, misleading customers to believe that the cream ...