Multiple choice

A believes blue colour to be black colour, for any reason whatsoever. He has a garment shop. He sells one blue colour shirt to B, representing it to be black colour. B knows nothing about colours. B believes A and accepts the blue colour to be black colour, Later on B's mother explains B that the colour of the shirt is actually blue and not black. It is a clear case of

  1. misrepresentation

  2. fraud

  3. unintentional fraud

  4. cheating
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Explanation

This is misrepresentation, not fraud. Fraud requires intention to deceive (Section 17). Here, A genuinely believes blue is black - there is no intent to deceive, only a false belief communicated to B. Misrepresentation (Section 18) covers innocent false statements made without fault. B's belief in the statement doesn't change A's lack of fraudulent intent.

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