See Also: dibranchiate(medicine)
dibranchiate(dictionary)

fraud (sh) and dibranchiate (iou)


fraud (sh)




In law, the deliberate misrepresentation of fact for the purpose of depriving someone of a valuable possession or legal right.

Any omission or concealment that is injurious to another or that allows a person to take unconscionable advantage of another may constitute criminal fraud. The most common type of fraud is the obtaining of property by giving a check for which there are insufficient funds in the signer's account. Another is the assumption of someone else's or a fictitious identity with the intent to deceive. Also important are mail and wire fraud (fraud committed by use of the postal service or electronic devices, such as telephones or Computers). A tort action based on fraud is sometimes referred to as an action of deceit.


dibranchiate (iou)



dibranchiate adjective & noun. M19.
[mod. Latin dibranchiata, from DI-2 + Greek bragkhia gills: see -ATE2.]
(Designating or pertaining to) a cephalopod with one pair of gills, sometimes placed in a group Dibranchiata comprising all living cephalopods except the pearly nautilus.