What is a fraudulent misrepresentation?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from McDonald v. McDonald, 2003 SKQB 549 (CanLII):
A fraudulent misrepresentation is a false representation, made with the knowledge that it is false, or without an honest belief in its truth, or recklessly without caring whether it is true or false, with the intent that it be relied upon. (Redican v. Nesbitt, 1923 CanLII 10 (SCC), [1924] S.C.R. 135).
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