In which case, where the advocate of one of the parties was asking for continuous adjournments to the immense inconvenience of the opposite party, it was held by the Supreme Court that seeking adjournments for postponing the examination of witnesses who were present without making other arrangements for examining such witnesses is a dereliction of the duty that an advocate owed to the Court, amounting to misconduct
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Under the Indian Contract Act, 'fraud' (S.17) includes: false suggestion of fact, active concealment, promise without intent to perform, any act to deceive, and any act declared fraudulent by law.