Example sentences of "a [noun] [coord] obtaining by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I am not entirely clear about the wording of the sentence which I have emphasised , but I think the sense is that the accused can be convicted of obtaining by deception , whether the offence has taken the form of larceny by a trick or obtaining by false pretences . ) |
| 2 | But since ‘ obtaining the possession by any trick ’ amounts to a taking for the purpose of larceny , it is notoriously difficult to draw any logical distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and to decide whether a particular case amounts to the one offence or the other . |
| 3 | An important point , with a view to interpreting the Act of 1968 and understanding comments , both judicial and academic , which have been made about it , is the fusion in clause 12 and section 15 of larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 4 | The alternative , however , involves the writing back into section 1(1) of words which the legislature , no doubt deliberately , omitted , and the re-introduction into the criminal law of the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 5 | 373 , 377b ) that both larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences involved ‘ consent ’ by the victim , because what is involved is consent to two different things . |
| 6 | I have cited these passages in order to illustrate the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and the important , if obvious , fact that the owner 's consent to transfer the property prevents the offender from being guilty of larceny , although the consent was obtained by fraud and , in the words of Megaw L.J . |
| 7 | II , Professor J. C. Smith discusses the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and continues , at p. 20 , para. 38 : |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal in that case thought that the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences depended on the presence in the Larceny Act of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ and , as these words do not appear in the definition of theft , the distinction is gone ; all cases of obtaining by deception , contrary to section 15 , are also theft . |