Difference between Deceit and Misrepresentation

DECEIT vs MISREPRESENTATION: NOUN

The quality of being fraudulent
A misleading falsehood
The act or practice of deceiving; deception.
A stratagem; a trick.
The quality of being deceitful; falseness.
The quality of being false or misleading; falseness; falsehood; deception; deceptiveness.
The act or practice of deceiving; concealment or perversion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; fraud; cheating.
That which deceives; action or speech designed to mislead or beguile; a guileful artifice.
In law, any trick, device, craft, collusion, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another: now more commonly called fraud or misrepresentation.
An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
The act of deceiving
An act or practice intended to deceive; a trick
An act of deceiving someone
The state of being deceitful or deceptive
The tort or fraudulent representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth and with intent to induce reliance on it; the plaintiff justifiably relies on the deception, to his injury.
Any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. When injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.

A misleading falsehood
Erroneous or false representation; an unfair or dishonest account or exposition; a false statement: as, to injure one's character by misrepresentations.
Incorrect or unfaithful representation in the capacity of agent or official representative, as of a principal in a matter of business, or of constituents in legislation.
In map-making, faultiness in a map-projection, estimated with regard to its unequal scale in different parts and to its distortion of angles.
Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented.
A willful perversion of facts

Hypocrisy, Dishonest, Untruth, Betrayal, Treachery, Falsehood, Mendacity, Deceitful, Duplicity, Dishonesty, Fraudulence, Misrepresentation, Dissembling, Dissimulation, Deception

Forgery, Misunderstanding, Distortion, False, Mislead, Untruth, Misstatement, Misleading, Misinformation, Misinterpretation, Dishonesty, Deceit, Falsification, Falsehood, Deception

Prevarication, Concealment, Dishonest, Untruth, Betrayal, Treachery, Falsehood, Mendacity, Deceitful, Duplicity, Dishonesty, Fraudulence, Dissembling, Dissimulation, Deception

Perversion, Distorting, Misreading, Forgery, Distortion, False, Mislead, Untruth, Misleading, Misinformation, Dishonesty, Deceit, Falsification, Falsehood, Deception

Decorum dastardly dazzle deceit, demolish demur, annihilate denigrate.
Paternity fraud is a wrong involving paternal deceit.
The Court verified the position and concluded that there was no deceit and the plea for action for deceit was dismissed.
Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic integrity; it always involves deceit, whether that deceit is intended or not.
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
False Ways Law, Ten Commandments Stealing Robbery Deceit, Practice Of Lying Deception, Forbidden By God Lying And Deceit.
Italian, or the plot he made up to putbeside it, we shall discover deceit piled on deceit.
Deceit is deceit with or without an asterisk.
Elymas was full of deceit and controlled by deceit.
Deceit with evil intent: simple, double, triple, poly deceit and color of law deceit.

Can a misrepresentation render the contract void if the misrepresentation is material to the risk?
In such circumstances, A can find relief by filing for intentional misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, or filing under the Merchandising Practices Act.
In particular, we treat binary misrepresentation indicators as latent variables under GLM ratemaking models, for rating factors that are subject to misrepresentation.
The remedies available for misrepresentation depend on whether the misrepresentation was fraudulent, negligent or innocent.
Finally, there was the suite of deceit claims: fraudulent misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment, and negligent misrepresentation.
Another area where an alleged misrepresentation may not actually meet the standard of a misrepresentation is job placement rate reporting.
The term misrepresentation refers to fraudulent misrepresentation and is therefore a specie of fraud.
Compared to innocent and fraudulent misrepresentation, neglent misrepresentation is a relatively recent creation.
Misrepresentation The College does not engage in misrepresentation.
Misrepresentation New Jersey recognizes claims for egligent Misrepresentation.