constructive fraud

1. 1.

   comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence

   Synonymslegal fraud

   Broaderfraud

   Narrowerfraud in law

Questions about constructive fraud

What does constructive fraud mean?

constructive fraud means "comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence".

What is another word for constructive fraud?

Close synonyms include legal fraud. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is constructive fraud a common word?

constructive fraud is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.