Can't you see the client digging up the needful?
He'd be stuffing it down our friend's pockets before he got through speaking; and the whole thing could be done quite openly, you observe, because, even if the client found out later that he had made a mistake, the law would not help him." "An excellent illustration," I answered, "of the uses to which a legal decision may be put." "Indeed, though," continued Gottlieb, "the scheme need by no means by as raw as all that.

It is enough if there be merely an _immoral_ or _improper_ motive that induces the victim to part with his money.
For example, if he but thinks that he can do a sharp trick to some one else.

Let us suppose that I pretend to have secret information to the effect that certain property is really much more valuable than the owner supposes it to be.

I propose to another that--if he will put up the money for that purpose--we shall buy the property, leading the owner to suppose he is getting full value for it.

Now, if, to induce the latter to make the sale, it is agreed between us that we make false or misleading statements as to the real value of the property I do not see but that I would be perfectly safe." "Safe ?" I queried.