Fraud vs. Treason

Fraudnoun

(law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

Treasonnoun

The crime of betraying one’s own country.

Fraudnoun

Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved and/or unlawful gain.

Treasonnoun

An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence.

Fraudnoun

The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.

Treasonnoun

The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.

‘The treason of the murthering in the bed.’;

Fraudnoun

A person who performs any such trick.

Treasonnoun

Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.

‘If he be false, she shall his treason see.’;

Fraudnoun

(obsolete) A trap or snare.

Treasonnoun

a crime that undermines the offender's government

Fraudverb

(obsolete) To defraud

Treasonnoun

disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior

Fraudnoun

Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

‘If success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends.’;

Treasonnoun

an act of deliberate betrayal

Fraudnoun

An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of obtaining some valuable thing or promise from another.

Treason

Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state.

Fraudnoun

A trap or snare.

‘To draw the proud King Ahab into fraud.’;

Fraudnoun

intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

Fraudnoun

a person who makes deceitful pretenses

Fraudnoun

something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

Fraud

In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law (e.g., a fraud victim may sue the fraud perpetrator to avoid the fraud or recover monetary compensation) or criminal law (e.g., a fraud perpetrator may be prosecuted and imprisoned by governmental authorities), or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.