CONFIDENCE GAME - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CONFIDENCE GAME? Definition of CONFIDENCE GAME in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

Obtaining of money or property by means of some trick, device, or swindling operation in which  advantage is taken of the confidence  which the victim reposes in the swindler. People v. Mutchler, 309 Ill. 207, 140 N.E. 820, 822, 35 A.L.R. 339; Roll v. People, 243 P. 641, 643,78 Col o. 589; People v. Epstein,  338 Ill. 631, 170 N.E. 678, 679. For distinction between false pre and confidence game, see False Pretenses.

One obtaining  property  by unlawful  means, other than by fraudulently obtaining  and then abusing  victim's  confidence, is not guilty  of obtaining property by means of "confidence  game." Bomareto v. People, 111 Colo. 99, 137 P.2d 402, 404.

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