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The common law addresses deceit in a variety of ways but consistently includes a harm requirement before the perpetrator may be held liable. The examples discussed here include the torts of fraudulent misrepresentation, defamation, and injurious falsehoods, and they reflect how the common law typically treats deception.
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Familiar examples include: the torts of deceit, libel and defamation; the crime of theft by false pretenses and federal mail and wire fraud statutes; the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Lanham Act, and state unfair and deceptive acts and practices laws; laws prohibiting securities fraud and requiring issuer disclosures; the contract defense of...
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Webster's definition of lie is specific: : a false statement or action especially made with the intent to deceive; : anything that gives or is meant to give a false impression. definition like this implies that there are many, many ways to tell a lie. Here are just a few.
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Feb 21, 2008 · Questions central to the philosophical discussion of lying to others and other-deception (interpersonal deceiving) may be divided into two kinds. Questions of the first kind are definitional or conceptual. They include the questions of how lying is to be defined, how deceiving is to be defined, and whether lying is always a form of deceiving.
Before I turn to this, I first explain my definition of lying and how I distinguish lies from secrets, self-deception, and other kinds of deceit. I then discuss some of the difficulties in using that definition, when people believe what is false to be true. Next I consider the different motives that underlie the decision to tell a lie.
This chapter considers the various ways in which the law regulates lies and other forms of deception. In the case of offenses such as perjury, fraud, and rape by deception, it takes a hard line, subjecting offenders to serious criminal sanctions.
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Feb 21, 2008 · This definition is as follows: To lie = df to make a believed-false statement to another person while believing that the context is one in which the norm ‘Do not say what you believe to be false’ is in effect.
