A Treatise On The Law Of Fraud On Its Civil Side PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... constructive fraud. introductory. We have seen that to certain cases falling short of (real) fraud the law has given the name 'constructive' fraud, because, in certain particulars, it treats them as if they were cases of fraud.1 Of such cases two divisions may be made, in one of which the burden of proof, instead of resting upon the plaintiff as in proper cases of fraud, rests upon the defendant; in the other the burden rests, in accordance with ordinary principles, upon the plaintiff, the offence however turning, not upon the original purpose, but upon conduct subsequent. The first division embraces transactions between parties in fiduciary, confidential, or kindred relations. chapter I. fiduciary, confidential, and kindred relations. L Fiduciary Relations. 1. The General Principle. When a party, complaining of a particular transaction, such as a gift, sale, or contract, has shown to the court the existence of a fiduciary or a confidential relation between himself and the defendant, and that the defendant occupied the position of trust or confidence therein, the law raises a suspicion or, it is often said, a presumption of fraud; a suspicion 1 Ante, pp. 10-13. or presumption, arising as matter of law,1 that the transaction brought to the notice of the court was effected through fraud or, what comes to much the same thing, undue influence by the opposite party, by reason of his occupying a position affording him peculiar opportunities for taking advantage of the complaining party. Having special facilities for committing fraud upon the party whose interests have been intrusted to him, the law, looking to the frailty of human nature, requires the party in the superior situation to show that his action has been honest and honorab