 | Law - 1920 - 496 pages
...committed, the Court of Appeals (8th Cir.) said: "This statute declares that anyone who devises a scheme 'to defraud,' or 'for obtaining money or property...fraudulent pretenses, representations or promises,' and uses the mails to execute it, shall be fined or imprisoned. The indictment and the evidence are... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 2090 pages
...fraud orders as a means of stopping the use of the malls as an agency in conducting schemes or devices for obtaining money or property by means of false...fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises. are not restricted to schemes or devices which are wanting In all the elements of a legitimate business,... | |
 | Carriers - 1899 - 76 pages
...more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 44. Use of mails to promote frauds. Whoever having devised or intending to devise any...for obtaining money or property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter,... | |
 | Cuba. Military governor, 1899 (John R. Brooke) - Cuba - 1900 - 520 pages
...more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 44. Use of mails to promote frauds. Whoever having devised or intending to devise any...for obtaining money or property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter,... | |
 | United States. Superintendent of Documents - Government publications - 1911 - 1756 pages
...transmission through mails of matter relating to lotteries, schemes to defraud, and schemes or devices for obtaining money or property by means of false...fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises. [1901.] 4« Meyer, George von L. Address of [George yon L.] Meyer at banquet of New England Postmasters'... | |
 | Francis Buchanan Tiffany - Banking law - 1912 - 732 pages
...p. 1641. Using mails to promote frauds; counterfeit bank notes, etc.; punishment for. — Sec. 215. Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any...artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property iby means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan,... | |
 | United States - 1913 - 830 pages
...to letter boxes, etc. Sec. 1707. Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any Cslng malls to scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money...fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, , ,,l 1-1 1 * mm • OWO, J Ij 25 or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1914 - 900 pages
...Establishment shall, upon conviction, be punishable ..." Section 215 of the Criminal Code is as follows: "Whoever, having devised, or intending to devise any...fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, . . . shall, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, place . .... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1914 - 898 pages
...Establishment shall, upon conviction, be punishable ..." Section 215 of the Criminal Code is as follows: "Whoever, having devised, or intending to devise any...fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, . . shall, for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, place . . .... | |
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Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises... 
