NOUN
- (law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation
How To Use false pretence In A Sentence
- Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.
- He was accused of obtaining money under false pretences.
- Who cares if consumers are lured in under false pretences and win zilch? Times, Sunday Times
- If his case doesn't justify asylum, then there are millions of undeserving asylum seekers living here under false pretences.
- I could not go on living with a man who had married me under false pretences.
- Chinese and Indian workers are more likely to skip off work under the false pretence of illness than their French and Mexican counterparts, a new study showed.
- He faces 47 charges of false pretences, forgery and fraudulent conversion between 1995 and April 2001.
- She was accused of obtaining money under false pretences.
- He can even be forgiven for terming some of the ringleaders of the dissatisfaction ‘rotten tomatoes’, as it seems clear they got some staff to sign a petition under false pretences.
- This statement represents the old doctrine in regard to obtaining property by false pretences, to which I shall advert presently.
