What is the law on bribery in real estate transactions?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hitchcock v. Sykes, 1913 CanLII 21 (ON CA):
The Courts seem to have shewn a tendency in the later cases to lay stress upon the breach of duty to disclose rather than upon fraud in the transaction. In Harrington v. Victoria Graving Dock Co. (ante), the giving of a bribe, or even the promise of a bribe, though it did not influence the mind of the agent, was said to be an obviously corrupt bargain, which could not be enforced.
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