She submitted that these are all findings of fact arrived at by a court law.
Learned counsel further submitted that this Court defined fraudulent intent in the case of Fredrick Zaabwe vs Orient Bank & Others Civil Appeal No 04/2006, as “an intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable things belonging to him or to surrender a legal right A false representation as a matter of fact whether by words or by conduct by false or misleading allegations or by concealment of that which deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal injury.”
The Court in that case also cited the definitions provided in Blacks Law Dictionary, 6th edition, page 660 on the issue of fraud as follows:
“An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right. A false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which deceives and it is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal injury. Anything calculated to deceive, whether by single act or combination, or by suppression of truth, or suggestion of what is false, whether it is by direct falsehood or innuendo by speech or silence, word of
mouth, or look or gesture .................................. a generic term,
embracing all multifarious means which human ingenuity can devise, and which are resorted to by one individual to get advantage over another by false suggestions or by suppression of truth, and includes all surprise, trick, cunning, dissembling, and any
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