To defraud definition
To defraud means to deprive a person of property or any interest, estate, or right by deceit or artifice, to cheat.
To defraud ordinarily means ... to deprive a person dishonestly of something which is his or something which he is or would be or might but for the perpetration of the fraud be entitled.”
To defraud means “wronging one in his property rights by dishonest methods or schemes” and “usually signif[ies] the deprivation of something of value by trick, deceit, chicane or overreaching.” Corley v. Rosewood Care Center, Inc., 388 F.3d 990, 1005 (7th Cir. 2004).