per fraude

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per fraude - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  PER FRAUDEM. A replication to a plea where something has been pleaded which 
  would be a discharge, if it had been honestly pleaded, that such a thing has 
  been obtained by fraud for example, where on debt on a statute, the 
  defendant pleads a prior action depending, if such action has been commenced 
  by fraud the plaintiff may reply per fraudem: 2 Chit. Pl. *675.