in Law, signifies deceit in grants or conveyances of lands, &c. or in bargains and sales of goods, &c. to the damage of another person.

A fraudulent conveyance of lands or goods to deceive creditors, as to creditors is void in law. And a fraudulent conveyance in order to defraud purchasers, is also to such purchasers void; and the persons justifying or putting off such grants as good, shall forfeit a year's value of the lands, and the full value of the goods and chattels, and likewise shall be imprisoned. See Cheating.

FRASTADT, a town of Silesia, on the frontiers of Poland, remarkable for a battle gained by the Swedes over the Saxons in 1706. It is 70 miles N.W. of Breslau. E. Long. 15. 50. N. Lat. 51. 45.