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Pyramid scheme
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Pyramid schemeA commercial version of the Chain Letter scheme where the Fraudster sells bogus distributorships, franchises or business opportunity plans to people who are in turn induced to do the same.
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Letter
1) Common law, criminal law. An epistle; a despatch; a written message, usually on paper, which is folded up and sealed, sent by one person to another. 2) Contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. 3) Civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law which had been submitted to him by magistrates, was called letters or epistles. 4) Missive, English law. After a bill has been filed against a peer or peeress, or lord of parliament, a petition is presented to the lord chancellor for his letter, called a letter missive, which requests the defendant to appear and answer to the bill. A neglect to attend to this, places the defendant, in relation to such suit, on the same ground as other defendants, who are not peers, and a subpoena may then issue.
Fraudster
One who commits the Fraud.
People
A state.
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Purview
That part of an act of the legislature which begins with the words "Be it enacted," &c., aud ends before the repealing clause.
Putative
Reputed to be that which is not. The word is frequently used, as putative father, putative marriage, putative wife, and the like.
Putative father
The reputed father.
Putative marriage
This marriage is described by jurists as "matrimonium putativum, id est, quod bona fide et solemnitur saltem, opinions conjugis unius justa contractum inter personas vetitas jungi." It is a marrriage contracted in good faith, and in ignorance of the existence of those facts which constituted a legal impediment to the intermarriage.
Putting in fear
These words are used in the definition of a robbery from the person; the offence must have been committed by putting in fear the person robbed.
Pyramid scheme
Pactum constitutae pecuniae
Civil law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his creditor, a certain day, or a certain time, at which he pro-mised to pay; or it maybe defined, simply. an agreement by which a person promises a creditor to pay him.
Puis darrein continuance
Pleading. These old French words signify since the last continuance.
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Letter
1) Common law, criminal law. An epistle; a despatch; a written message, usually on paper, which is folded up and sealed, sent by one person to another. 2) Contracts. In the civil law, locator, and in the French law, locateur, loueur, or bailleur, is he who, being the owner of a thing, lets it out to another for hire or compensation. 3) Civil law. The answer which the prince gave to questions of law which had been submitted to him by magistrates, was called letters or epistles. 4) Missive, English law. After a bill has been filed against a peer or peeress, or lord of parliament, a petition is presented to the lord chancellor for his letter, called a letter missive, which requests the defendant to appear and answer to the bill. A neglect to attend to this, places the defendant, in relation to such suit, on the same ground as other defendants, who are not peers, and a subpoena may then issue.
Fraudster
One who commits the Fraud.
People
A state.
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Purview
That part of an act of the legislature which begins with the words "Be it enacted," &c., aud ends before the repealing clause.
Putative
Reputed to be that which is not. The word is frequently used, as putative father, putative marriage, putative wife, and the like.
Putative father
The reputed father.
Putative marriage
This marriage is described by jurists as "matrimonium putativum, id est, quod bona fide et solemnitur saltem, opinions conjugis unius justa contractum inter personas vetitas jungi." It is a marrriage contracted in good faith, and in ignorance of the existence of those facts which constituted a legal impediment to the intermarriage.
Putting in fear
These words are used in the definition of a robbery from the person; the offence must have been committed by putting in fear the person robbed.
Pyramid scheme
Pactum constitutae pecuniae
Civil law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his creditor, a certain day, or a certain time, at which he pro-mised to pay; or it maybe defined, simply. an agreement by which a person promises a creditor to pay him.
Puis darrein continuance
Pleading. These old French words signify since the last continuance.
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