PER FRAUDE

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PER FRAUDEM. A replication to a plea where something has been pleaded which 
would be a discharge, if it had been honestly pleaded, that such a thing has 
been obtained by fraud for example, where on debt on a statute, the 
defendant pleads a prior action depending, if such action has been commenced 
by fraud the plaintiff may reply per fraudem: 2 Chit. Pl. *675. 
    

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