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31John Lewis Phipps — (1801 1870), of Leighton House, Westbury, Wiltshire, was a Brazil merchant, briefly Conservative MP for Westbury (1868) and High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1864).He was the second son of Thomas Henry Hele Phipps (1777 1841), of Leighton House,… …
32South Asia Tribune — The South Asia Tribune is one of the prominent online journals. It focus on the political, social, regional and other issues of South Asia. A prominent US based Pakistani journalist, Shaheen Sehbai, is the founder of this journal. haheen… …
33breach of trust — see breach 1a Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. breach of trust …
34malfeasance — mal·fea·sance /ˌmal fēz əns/ n [mal bad + obsolete English feasance doing, execution, from Old French faisance, from fais , stem of faire to make, do, from Latin facere]: the commission (as by a public official) of a wrongful or unlawful act… …
35misappropriation — I noun abuse, appropriation for a dishonest use, appropriation for a wrongful use, arrogation, breach of trust, conversion, defalcation, defraudation, diversion, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulent conversion, illegal use of property, larceny,… …
36misrepresentation — mis·rep·re·sen·ta·tion /mis ˌre pri ˌzen tā shən, zən / n: an intentionally or sometimes negligently false representation made verbally, by conduct, or sometimes by nondisclosure or concealment and often for the purpose of deceiving, defrauding,… …
37Champerty — Legal term for an agreement with one side of a dispute to have a share in the property being disputed; this was clearly corrupt practice. Champerty was explicitly forbidden under statute by Edward III, as was *embracery. The Latin form is… …
38violation — I noun abuse, breach, contra leges, dereliction, desecration, disturbance, encroachment, illegality, impiety, infraction, infringement, interruption, invasion, irreverence, lawbreaking, misbehavior, mistreatment, misuse, nonobservance, offense,… …
39baseness — index abuse (corrupt practice), bad character, corruption, degradation, delinquency (misconduct), discredit, disgrace …
40deviation from rectitude — I noun abuse, bad faith, bad repute, blame, corruption, crime, disgrace, dishonor, guilt, malfeasance, misconduct, misdoing, misfeasance, misprision II index abuse (corrupt practice), attaint, bad faith, bad repute …
