Is there no way to protect these great corporations against the frauds of individuals, and at the same time protect the individual against the frauds of the corporations?
An act has lately been passed which will, we trust, check in some degree the grosser food-frauds on the public.
Nothing is more indicative of the barefaced frauds perpetrated by grocers upon the public than the manner in which they go out of their way to puff in the grossest style the most abominable trash.
The gigantic naturalization frauds committed in the Presidential campaign of 1868 resulted in an investigation by Congress and in the placing of congressional elections under Federal supervision.
On all sides gigantic fraudswere being committed by the capitalists.
These frauds comprised corrupt laws that gave, in circumstances of notorious scandal, tracts of land in the Adirondack Mountains to railroad companies now included in the Vanderbilt system.
The stupendous land frauds in all of the Western and Pacific States by which capitalists obtained "an empire of land, timber and mines" are amply described in numerous documents of the period.
An amendment passed in 1892 made frauds still easier.
These long-continuing frauds could not have been possible without the custom-house officials having been bribed to connive.
The frauds in the settlement of private land claims on alleged grants by Spain and Mexico were colossal.
The frauds and extortions of the Pullman Company have been sufficiently dealt with in the particular chapter on Marshall Field.
He had masses of ready money to do it with; the millions from the mail subsidy frauds and from his other lootings of the public treasury proved an unfailing source of supply.
But, as I have already remarked at the commencement of this treatise, the inventors of these frauds never imagined any one could be found bold enough to speak out and expose their deceptions.
It is not enough for a true Christian to reject the poisoned food of the demons; he must also fly from all the abominations of the Pagans,--from all the frauds of the idolaters, as from venom ejected by the serpent of the devil.
His faith and works, like streams that intermingle, In the same channel ran The crystal clearness of an eye kept single Shamed all the frauds of man.
It were endless to recount all the artifices, extortions, and frauds which were practised on the commodore and his people, by this interested race.
Their last chief was publicly whipped and branded for his frauds and villainies, his goods confiscated, and he himself banished to Ceylon; since when they have been ashamed to elect another chief.
The fiscal of the sea has jurisdiction over all frauds committed in commerce, in cases of piracy, or in whatever tends to disturb the settled rules of maritime affairs.
Many state suffrage amendments undoubtedly lost by frauds in elections.
The watchfulness of this party machinery, plus an increasingly vigilant public opinion, has corrected many of the election frauds which were once common and most elections are now probably free from all the baser forms of corruption.
Girt with the arms of the first Wisdom, free Your country from the frauds that cumber it!
These frauds were even acknowledged by many, who had themselves practised them in obedience to the orders of their superiors.
A hundred frauds would be committed by those, which we could not detect.
Concealed theirfrauds amid the flames of the Treasury.
They strive to drown the din of domestic discord in boasts of foreign conquests; and seek to hide corruption in a blaze of glory, as they concealed their frauds amid the flames of the treasury.
His signing is sufficient to satisfy the Statute of Frauds in any state conferring on an agent authority to make and contract for the sale of real and personal property without requiring his authority to be in writing.
A will should be in writing; and this in most states is a statutory requirement, to guard against the wrongs and frauds that might otherwise arise.
While the Statute of Frauds in some states is regarded as completely nullifying contracts not conforming to its requirements, they are not anywhere held to be illegal, that is, are not made in violation of law.
We have learned that the Statute of Frauds requires for the validity of many contracts that a memorandum of them be made in writing and signed by one or both contracting parties.
To guard against such frauds the system of registration was established at an early day in American history.
Peter Cantor, an unexceptionable witness, describes them as fishers for money and not for souls, with a thousand frauds to empty the pockets of the poor.
Formerly, continues Peter Cantor, there was some decent concealment in absorbing the property of rich and poor, but now it is publicly and boldly seized through infinite devices and frauds and novelties of extortion.
Frauds of all kinds naturally grew up among all who were concerned in dealing with these helpless creatures.
Even bolder frauds were attempted in Leon, and not without success, as we shall see hereafter.
We alluded a little while ago to some gigantic frauds in Stock Exchange operations.
One of the most extraordinary and elaborate of such frauds was that carried out by De Berenger and Cochrane-Johnstone in 1814.
His first important speech in the House was delivered in 1834 upon the necessity of economy and of watchfulness against frauds in the payment of Revolutionary claims.
I had detected pious frauds in the writings of some of the advocates of the Bible and Christianity.
The pious frauds of ancient and modern fanatics have proved a stumbling-block to thousands.
Were the privilege extended to the other kind of stamps, there being no way to cancel them, by their re-use, extensive frauds upon the revenue would be the result.
One example of good legislation was the pragmatic law of 1470, to protect unfortunate women against the cupidity, the extortions, and the frauds of tavern-keepers and others.
It has been held by those who objected to the new order of things--those who objected to that change in methods by which the public frauds were stopped--that the Executive was usurping powers not granted to him under the Constitution.
How cautiously he should proceed he will realise when, in the next chapter, I come to consider the critical question of autograph frauds and forgeries.
The success which has attended too many of these frauds may be largely accounted for by the fact that in many cases the enthusiasm of the collector has outrun his caution.
Sudeley’s connection and connivance at the frauds perpetrated by Sir William Sharington was also made a count of his indictment.
Sir William Sharington or Sherington was one of the most benighted frauds of this age, albeit a very successful one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frauds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
