What is CHEAT? Definition of CHEAT in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
v. To deceive and defraud. State v. Mastin, 277 Mo. 495, 211 S.W. 15, 18; Moore v. State, 92 Ind.App. 150, 168 N.E. 202, 203. It necessarily implies a fraudulent intent. Clolinger v. Callahan, 204 Ky. 33, 263 S.W. 700, 702.
The words "cheat and defraud" usually mean to induce a person to part with the possession of property by reason of intentionally false representations relied and acted upon by such person to his harm. Antonio Pepe Co. v. Apuzzo, 98 Conn. 807, 120 A. 681, 682; They include not only the crime of false pretenses, but also all civil frauds. Hinshaw v. State, 188 Ind. 147, 122 N.E. 418, 419. They include all tricks, devices, artifices, or deceptions used to deprive another of property or other right. State v. Parker, 114
Conn. 354, 158 A. 797, 800.
n. Swindling; defrauding. "Deceitful practices in defrauding or endeavoring to defraud another of his known right, by some willful device, contrary to the plain rules of common honesty." Hawk.P.C. b. 2, c. 23, § 1. "The fraudulent obtaining the property of another by any deceitful and illegal practice or token (short of felony) which affects or may affect the public." Steph.Crim. Law, 93.
Cheats, punishable at common law, are such cheats (not amounting to felony) as are effected by deceitful or illegal symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large, and against which common prudence could not have guarded. 2 Whart.Crim.Law, § 1116; 2 East, P.C. 818; Von Mumm v. Frash, C.C.N.Y., 56 F. 836; State v. Parker, 43 N.H. 85.
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