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PREVARICATION

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 311 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PREVARICATION , a divergence from the truth, equivocation, quibbling, a want of See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain-dealing or straightforwardness, especially a deliberate misrepresentation by evasive answers, often used as a less offensive synonym for a See also:

lie . The Latin praevaricatio was specifically applied to the conduct in an See also:

ACTION

action at See also:

law in which an See also:

ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate (praevaricator) in See also:

COLLUSION (from Lat. colludere, strictly, to play with)

collusion with his opponent put up a See also:

BAD, BCD

bad See also:

case of See also:

defence .

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