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Section 290: Penalties for fraud in property sale or mortgage

290.Frauds on sale or mortgage of property

Any person who, being a seller or mortgagor of any property, or being the advocate or agent of the seller or mortgagor, with intent to induce the purchaser or mortgagee to accept the title offered or produced to him or her, and with intent to defraud—

(a)conceals from the purchaser or mortgagee any instrument material to the title or any incumbrance;

(b)falsifies any pedigree on which the title depends or may depend; or

(c)makes any false statement as to the title offered or conceals any fact material to the title,

commits a misdemeanour and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of two years.

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A person selling or mortgaging property, or their advocate or agent, must not conceal important documents, falsify a family tree related to the title,...

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