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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 318
Fraud
Fraud is when a [person/business/corporation] intentionally makes a false statement; the
statement concerns an important or material fact; the [person/business/corporation] knows or
reasonably should know that the statement is false; the [person/business/corporation] intends that
the [person/business/corporation] to [whom/which] the statement is made will reasonably act
upon the statement; the [person/business/corporation] to [whom/which] the statement is made
does not know that the statement is false; the [person/business/corporation] to [whom/which] the
statement is made relies on the statement; the [person/business/corporation] to [whom/which] the
statement is made has a right to rely on the statement; and the [person/business/corporation] to
[whom/which] the statement is made suffers damages as a result of [his/her/its] reliance on the
statement.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 318 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
bfe812f766f03297357bd572b14a3d8384fc95b6421e96736c116399b1311fa0
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