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Trull on, and think to-morrow will repay ; 
To-morrow’s falfer than the former day; 
Lies worfe; and, while it fays we Ihall be bleft 
With fome new joy, cuts off what tve poffeft. Dryden. 
A perfon guilty of fraud.—Diffimulation can be no fur¬ 
ther ufeful than it is concealed ; for as much as no man 
will trull a known cheat. South. —In the eye of the law, 
cheats are deceitful practices, in defrauding, or endea¬ 
vouring to defraud, another of his known right, by 
means of fome. artful device, contrary to the plain rules 
of common honefty; as by playing with falfe dice; or 
by caufing an illiterate perfon to execute a deed to his 
prejudice, by reading it over to him in words different 
from thole .in which it was written ; or by perfuading a 
woman to execute writings to another as her truftee, 
upon an intended marriage, which in truth contained 
no fuch thing, but only a warrant of attorney to confefs 
a judgment; or by fuppreffing a will, See. i Hawk. P. C. 
c. 71. Changing corn by a miller, and returning bad 
corn in the Head, is punilhable by indictment, being an 
offence againft the public. ) SeJff'.Ca. 217. So to run a 
foot-race fraudulently, and, by a previous underllanding 
with the feeming competitor, to win money. 6 Mod. 42. 
So if an indented apprentice enters for a foldier, and, 
having received the bounty, is difeharged on his maf- 
ter’s demanding him, he may be indiCted. 1 Hawk. P. C. 
c. 71. But felling beer Ihort of the jull and due meafure, 
is not indiftable as a cheat. 1 Black. Rep. 274. Nor fell¬ 
ing gum of one denomination for that of another. Sayer, 
205. Nor felling wrought gold, as and for gold of the true 
ftandard; the offender not being - a goldlniith. Cowp. 
3 2 3- 
The diftinClion laid down as proper to be attended to 
in all cafes of the kind, is this : that in fuch impofitions 
or deceits, where common prudence may guard perforis 
againft their buffering from them, the offence is not in¬ 
dictable ; but the party is left to his civil remedy for re- 
orefs of the injury done him: but where falfe weights 
and meafures are ufed, or falfe tokens produced, or fuch 
snethods taken to cheat and deceive, as people cannot 
by any ordinary care or prudence be guarded againft, 
there it is an offence indictable. Burr. 1125. By flat. 
33 H. 8. c. 1. if any perfon falfely and deceitfully get 
into his hands or poffeffion any money or other things of 
any other perions by colour of any falfe token, See. being 
convicted, he Ihall have fuch punilhmfent by imprifon- 
ment, fetting upon the pillory, or by any corporal pain' 
(except pains of death) as Ihall be adjudged by the per- 
fons before whom he Ihall be conviCt. Lord Coke ob- 
ferves hereupon, that for this offence the offender can¬ 
not be fined, but corporal pain only infliCled. 3 -Injl. 133. 
But in 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 71. it is laid, that a perlon has 
been fined 500 1 . for this offence. In indictments on this 
ftatute, the falfe token made ufe of mull be fet forth. 
Stra. 1127. A counterfeit pafs has been held fuch. Dalt. 
91. or a pretended power to difcharge foldiers. 1 Latch. 
202. By flat. 30 Geo. II. c. 24. perfons convicted of ob¬ 
taining money or goods by falfe pretences, or of fending 
threatening letters in order to extort money or goods, 
may be punilhed by fine and imprifonment or by pil¬ 
lory, whipping, or tranfportalion. In indictment on' 
this ftatute, it muft appear what the falfe pretences were, 
a Term. Rep. 581. As there are frauds which may be 
relieved civilly, and not punilhed criminally, fo there are 
other frauds which, in a fpecial cafe, may not be helped 
civilly, and yet Ihall be punilhed criminally. Thus, if a 
minor goes about the town, and pretending to be of age, 
defrauds many perfons, by taking credit for a confidera- 
ble quantity of goods, and then infilling on his nonage, 
the perfons injured cannot recover the value of then- 
goods, but they may indiCl and punilh him for a com¬ 
mon cheat. 1 Hawk. P.C. c. 71. 
CHEATER, f. One that praCtifes fraud.—All forts of 
injurious perfons, the lacrikgious, the detainers of tithes, 
Che 
cheaters of men’s inheritances, falfe witneffes and accu- 
lersi Taylor. 
CHE'BIB, or Tellitz, a mountain of Africa, in the 
kingdom of Fez, on which are feveral towns. 
CHEBUC'TO, a bay and harbour on the fouth-fouth- 
eaft coaft of Nova Scotia, diftinguilhed by the lofs of a 
French fleet in a former war between France and Great 
Britain. Near the head of this bay, on the weft fide. 
Hands the city of Halifax, the capital of the province. 
CHECHMEBAND', a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Segellan : feventy miles north-weft of Zareng. 
CHECHMURATft a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Adirbeitzan : 200 miles north-eaft of Tauris. 
To CHECK, -v. a. [from the French echecs, chefs ; from 
whence we ufe, at that game, the term checkmate, when 
we llop our adverfary from carrying on his play any far¬ 
ther.] Toreprefs; to curb.—Fames may be foyvn and 
railed, they may be fpread and multiplied, they may be 
checked and laid dead. Bacon. 
I hate when vice caff bolt her arguments, 
And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. Milton . 
To reprove ; to chide : 
Richard, with his eye brimful of tears, 
Then check'd and rated by Northumberland, 
Did fpeak thefe words, now prov’d a prophefy. Shake/. 
To compare a bank note, or other bill, with the corre- 
fpondent paper. To controul by a counter-reckoning. 
To CHECK, v. n. To Hop; to make a Hop : with at —» 
The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, 
either is difabled for the future, or elfe checks at any vi¬ 
gorous undertaking ever after. Locke. —To clalh ; to in¬ 
terfere.—If love check with bufinefs, it troubleth men’s 
fortunes. Bacon.* —To ftrike with repreflion : 
I’ll avoid his prefence ; 
It checks too llrong upon me. Dryden. 
CHECK, / Repreffure; Hop; rebuff; fudden rellraint. 
•—God hath of late years manifelled himlelf in a very 
dreadful manner, as if it were on purpofe to give a check 
to infolent impiety. TUlotfon. —The great ftruggle with 
pallions is in the firll check. Rogers. —Rellraint; curb ; go¬ 
vernment; continued rellraint: 
Some free from rhyme or reafon, rule or check, 
Break Prifcian’s head, and Pegafus’s neck. Pope , 
A reproof; a flight: 
However this may gall him with fome check, 
Cannot with fafety call him. Shakefpeare. 
A dillike; a fudden difguft; fomething that Hops the 
progrefs: 
Say I Ihould wed her, would not my wife fubjefts 
Take check , and think it ftrange ? Dryden. 
In falconry, when a hawk forfakes her proper game to 
follow rooks, pies, or other birds, that crofs her flight.— 
A young woman is a hawk upon her wings; and, if Ihe 
be handlome, Ihe is the more fubjeCt to go out on check. 
Suckling. 
When whiffled from the fill 
Some falcon Hoops at what her eye defign’d, 
And with her eagernefs the quarry mifs’d. 
Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind. Drydi 
The perfon checking; the caufeof rellraint; a Hop.—A 
fatirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priefts. 
Dryden. —Any Hop or interruption.—The letters have 
the natural production by feveral checks or Hops, or, as 
they are ulually called, articulations of the breath or 
voice. Holder. —The correfpondent cipher of a bank-bill, 
or note, or order to pay money. A term ufed in the 
game of chels, when one party obliges the other either 
to move or guard his king. 
CHECK, 
