Second Judge: “It is extortion, and done for the purpose of extortion; and I should say he could be indicted for obtaining money by false pretences.
I’ll tell you what these villains have been guilty of; they’ve been guilty of obtaining money by false pretences, and conspiring to obtain money by false pretences.
Hart, an Assistant District Attorney, accused him of having obtained money from Levitan by means of false pretences as to the ownership of the property, and requested from him an explanation.
He must have fallen into great destitution, or he would not have been taken into custody for so sorry an offence as obtaining a shirt and a few yards of calico on false pretences.
Within the year he was committed to prison on a charge of obtaining goods by false pretences.
These remedies were insufficient to cover all cases where money or other properties had been obtained by false pretences, and the offence was first partially created by a statute of Henry VIII.
Obtaining credit by false pretences as to wealth and mercantile character is punishable by six months' imprisonment and a fine not exceeding three times the value of the money or property obtained (id.
In the case where a man goes into a restaurant and orders a meal, and, after consuming it, says that he has no means of paying for it, it was usual to convict for obtaining food by false pretences.
She has suddenly realised that although she might get you by false pretences, she could not keep you by false pretences--nor want to.
Henge could not forgive you if he knew that you had lied to him and to his mother, yet he adores you--you have that on false pretences too.
To gain a person's liking on false pretences is base; and I don't care how many women do it--nor how often they do it.
Had they taken to their hearth and home a secretly contracted serpent; a crocodile, who had made a furtive offer of his hand; an imposition on society; a bankrupt bachelor with no effects, trading with the spinster world on false pretences!
She knew that he sternly disapproved of theft and forgery, and to obtaining money by false pretences--one of her little hobbies--the captain was fanatically opposed.
Accordingly Madame Rachel was arrested on a charge of having obtained money by false pretences, and was committed for trial at the Old Bailey.
Then followed another trial for obtaining money and jewels by false pretences, and again the sentence was five years' penal servitude.
Even if regarded in its mildest and least mischievous aspect, it can be nothing less than obtaining money under false pretences.
Larceny as defined by S 528 of the Penal Code includes also embezzlement, obtaining property by false pretences, and felonious breach of trust (People v.
He had obtained a sable stole, value L40, from a costumier in Shaftesbury Avenue by false pretences.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "false pretences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
