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Sec. 280. What Is Fraud?
1 Clark on Contracts, 324; Maupin on Marketable Titles (2d Ed.). Ch. XI.
To attempt to enter in detail into the forms which fraud and misrepresentation may take with respect to real estate transactions, would be an impossible task. It would require an exceedingly lively imagination to speculate as to the various methods by which fraud might be perpetrated. Yet it may be suggested that there are certain formulae in vogue in real estate transactions which are not infrequently resorted to and which are or may be fraudulent.
2 Scarsdale Pub. Co. v. Carter. 63 Misc. 277 (N. T. 1809).
3 Smith v. Countryman, 30 N. Y. 670 (1864) ; Press v. Hair, 133 111. App. 534 (1907); Meeks v. Garner, 11 L. R. A. 196 (Ala. 1890); Dawe v. Morris. 4 L. R. A. 158 (Mass. 1889).
4 Forsterv. Wilhusen, 14 Misc. 520 (N. Y. 1895), (citing Kley v. Healy. 127 N. Y. 555, 561 (1891).
5 Hammond v. Pennock. 61 N. Y. 150. 151 (1874) ; Erie City Iron Works v. Barber, 106 Pa. St. 138 (1884) ; Cabot v. Christie. 42 Vt. 121 (1869).
6 Forster v. Wilhusen, 14 Misc. 520 (N. Y. 1895), (citing Kountze v. Kennedy. 147 N. Y. 124 (1895) ; Crowe v. Lewln, 95 N. Y. 423 (1884) ). And see Maupin on Marketable Titles (2d Ed.), Sec. 105.
Those experienced in real estate matters, and very many with but a single experience, will find no difficulty in subscribing to the general statement that the methods sometimes invoked to bring about a sale, are not all that might be desired. Many vendors - not to mention real estate brokers - insist that the truth should always be told, but it must be admitted that all the truth is not always told.

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