°Any attempt or disposition to
deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which
misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap;
deception; a wily device; fraud.
°Any
trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to
defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.