from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SUGGESTIO FALSI. A statement of a falsehood. This amounts to a fraud
whenever the party making it was bound to disclose the truth.
2. The following is an example of a case where chancery will interfere
and. set aside a contract as fraudulent, on account of the suggestio falsi:
a purchaser applied to the seller to purchase a lot of wild land, and
represented to him it was worth nothing, except for a sheep pasture, when he
knew there was a valuable mine on the lot, of which the seller was ignorant.
The sale was set aside. 2 Paige, 390; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3837, et seq. Vide
Concealment; Misrepresentation; Representation; Suppressio veri.