scheme to defraud

scheme to defraud
A plan designed or concocted for perpetrating a fraud. As the term is used in the Federal statutes making criminal the use of the mails for the purpose of executing a scheme to defraud, if the scheme or artifice in its necessary consequence is one which is calculated to injure another, to deprive him of his property wrongfully, then it is to defraud within the meaning of the statute. See Horman v United States (CA6 Ohio) 116 F 350. schireman. An earl. An earl is a title of nobility so ancient that its origin cannot be clearly traced. Among the Saxons they were called ealdormen (elder men) with the same meaning as the word senior or senator among the Romans. And the Saxons called them "schiremen" because they had each of them the civil government of a several division or shire. See 1 Bl Comm 398.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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