suppressio veri

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Sacrilege in ignorance, fraud, suppressio veri, and perjury, were punished by enforced compensation, and the addition of a fifth part of the value concerned in the matter to the priest, or to the person wronged.

From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various

One of the minor incidents in Stanton's course of action throws so strong light on his methods and was so irritating an example of the suppressio veri that it must be mentioned.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

This part of the epistle, a cunning combination of the suppressio veri and suggestio falsi, was given to all the others who were in the plot to copy.

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Feller, Frank

There is some trace of complicity with those who are interested in a suppressio veri.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Throughout the whole of this document the suppressio veri reigns supreme. 

From Rome in 1860 by Dicey, Edward