Fraud – this is a term of the Criminal Law, where in most jurisdictions details a deceitful conduct designed to manipulate another person to give something of value by (1) cheat, (2) by repeating something that is or ought to have been known by the fraudulent party as false or suspect or (3) by concealing a fact or circumstance from the other party which may have saved that party from being cheated. The existence of fraud will lead the civil court to void a contract and to notify the prosecutor for initiating a criminal investigation.