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Nonjudicial Foreclosure

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The crime of misstating facts to obtain money, goods or benefits of another to which the accused is not entitled. examples: a person a) falsely claims to represent a charity to obtain a donation which he/she keeps; b) says a painting is a genuine jackson pollock when it is a fake and thus is able to sell it for a price much greater than its true value. misrepresentation is also called “false pretenses.”

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