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This article seeks to examine thecurrent scope of the equitable principle that``equity will not allow a statute to be used asan instrument of fraud''. In particular, itexamines the meaning of fraud in this contextand the question whether the so-called rule inRochefoucauld in Boustead [1897] 1 Ch.196 can be applied legitimately in theenforcement of informal rights for the benefitof third parties.
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Pawlowski, M. Fraud, Legal Formality and Equity. Liverpool Law Review 23, 79–94 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014049905920
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