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perjury, or unless the representation if not made on oath is made under circumstances amounting to a common law cheat. Personation has been made an offence by See also:

STATUTE

statute in the following cases: (1) where it amounts to a false pretence by words or conduct, and is done with See also:

INTENT (from Lat. intend ere, to stretch out, extend, particularly in the phrase intendere animum, to turn one's mind to, purpose)

intent to defraud, and See also:

PROPERTY

property is by such false pretence obtained, 24 & 25 Vict. C. 96 SS. 88–90 (see FALSE PRETENCES); (2) in the See also:

case of false and deceitful personation of any person or of the See also:

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir, executor, See also:

ADMINISTRATOR

administrator, wife, widow, next of See also:

KIN (0. E. cyn, a word represented in nearly all Teutonic languages, cf. Du. kunne, Dan. and Swed. kon, Goth kuni, tribe; the Teutonic base is kunya; the equivalent Aryan root gan- to beget, produce, is seen in Gr. 'yEvos, Lat. genus, cf. "kind")

kin or relative of any person with intent fraudulently to obtain any See also:

LAND

land, See also:

ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate, See also:

CHATTEL (for derivation see CATTLE)

chattel, See also:

MONEY

money, valuable See also:

SECURITY (Lat. securus, free from care, safe)

security or property (37 & 38 Vict. C. 36 s. I); (3) in the case of personation of votes at elections (see CORRUPT PRACTICES). The first of these offences is a See also:

MISDEMEANOUR (from O. Fr. mes- and demener, to conduct oneself ill)

misdemeanour only; the second is a See also:

FELONY (0. Fr. felonie, from felon, a word meaning " wicked," common to Romanic languages, cf. Italian fella, fellone, the ultimate origin of which is obscure, but is possibly connected either with Lat. fel, gall, or fallere, to deceive. The English " fel

felony punishable by penal See also:

SERVITUDE (Lat. servitus, from service, to serve)

servitude for See also:

LIFE

life. The second offence was created in 1874 in consequence of the Tichborne case, in which under the law as it then stood it had been necessary to prosecute the claimant for perjury. Besides the enactments to See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of which a See also:

PERSPECTIVE (Lat. peespicere, to see through)

perspective See also:

DRAWING

drawing is to be made.

The lowest above referred to there are also a number of provisions for dealing with the personation of sailors, soldiers, pensioners and owners of stock in the public funds or shares in See also:

JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint-stock companies, and of persons who falsely acknowledge in the name of another recognizances, deeds or See also:

INSTRUMENTS

instruments, before a See also:

court or person authorized to take the See also:

ACKNOWLEDGMENT (from the old acknow, a compound of on- and know, to know by the senses, which passed through the forms oknow, aknow and acknow; acknowledge is formed on analogy of " knowledge ")

acknowledgment.

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