False Pretence: On the day you said you work for the university, can you produce a letter of employment confirming your status? If not, that is misrepresentation and the Heritage Singers archives were taken under a scheme of false pretences. Do you intend to kill the woman also?

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Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46)

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Marginal note:False pretence

  • 361 (1) A false pretence is a representation of a matter of fact either present or past, made by words or otherwise, that is known by the person who makes it to be false and that is made with a fraudulent intent to induce the person to whom it is made to act on it.

  • Marginal note:Exaggeration

    (2) Exaggerated commendation or depreciation of the quality of anything is not a false pretence unless it is carried to such an extent that it amounts to a fraudulent misrepresentation of fact.

  • Marginal note:Question of fact

    (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), it is a question of fact whether commendation or depreciation amounts to a fraudulent misrepresentation of fact.

  • R.S., c. C-34, s. 319
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