§ 531

Fraudulent conveyances

See penalty details Fraud & Money Title 13, Ch. 8 · False Personation and Cheats

Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term

Every person who is a party to any fraudulent conveyance of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, goods or chattels, or any right or interest issuing out of the same, or to any bond, suit, judgment, or execution, contract or conveyance, had, made, or contrived with intent to deceive and defraud others, or to defeat, hinder, or delay creditors or others of their just debts, damages, or demands; or who, being a party as aforesaid, at any time wittingly and willingly puts in, uses, avows, maintains, justifies, or defends the same, or any of them, as true, and done, had, or made in good faith, or upon good consideration, or aliens, assigns, or sells any of the lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, or other things before mentioned, to him or them conveyed as aforesaid, or any part thereof, is guilty of a .

History: Enacted 1872.

Simplified explanation

Being a party to a conveyance or other transaction made to defraud others or hinder creditors, or knowingly defending or transferring under it, is a misdemeanor; no term is stated here.