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They do not desire the freedom of the city whereby they will defraud the King or this city of any of its rights, customs and privileges.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You must do your best to win St. Udo's love," she whispered, earnestly, "else you will defraud him of his rights, and his ruin will be at your door."

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

This will defraud no man, and will be in accordance with familiar precedents.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 2: Rutherford B. Hayes by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

They must have authority to enact any laws for executing their own powers, or those powers will be evaded by the artful and unjust, and the dishonest trader will defraud the public of its revenue.

From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Ford, Paul Leicester

But if not, he will defraud him of his money, and he shall get him for an enemy without cause: 9.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen