Civil Code Section 1573 - Definitions of Fraud and Deceit

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Civil Code

Definitions of Fraud and Deceit

1573. Constructive fraud consists:

1. In any breach of duty which, without an actually fraudulent intent, gains an advantage to the person in fault, or anyone claiming under him, by misleading another to his prejudice, or to the prejudice of anyone claiming under him; or,

2. In any such act or omission as the law specially declares to be faaudulent, without respect to actual fraud.