sham definition

sham means any information provided for an application which is not true, accurate, or is spurious, or deceitful.
sham means an instrument created for the purposes of evading or otherwise defrauding the Government of any duty payable under this Act;
sham means fictitious, deceptive, and fraudulent.

More Definitions of sham

sham. ] means acts done or documents executed by the parties to the ‘sham’ which are intended to give to third parties or to the court the appearance of creating between the parties legal rights and obligations different from the actual legal rights and obligations (if any) which the parties intend to create.”
sham means any information provided for an application which is not true,
sham means to act intentionally so as to give a false impression.” In the Matter of Manuel Galan, Jr., 17 BOLI 112, 137 (1998), affirmed without opinion, Galan v. Bureau of Labor and Industries, 167 Or App 259 (2000), rev den 332 Or 137, 27 P3d 1043 (2001). “Subterfuge” means “deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade.” Id. The purpose of the inquiry set out in the rule is to uncover mere changes in business form that indicate that the entity now making application is really the same entity that anticipated a negative licensing action or actually suffered a denied, suspended, revoked or refuse license while doing business in a different form. Id. Accordingly, the forum’s inquiry must focus on the time that Northwest first applied for a farm/forest labor contractor license. That was in December 2004, when N. Piatkoff and Northwest made their application and B. Piatkoff decided to let his BP Reforestation farm labor contractor license lapse and instead apply for a farm/forest labor contractor employee indorsement under the sponsorship of N. Piatkoff and Northwest. The evidence is undisputed that B. Piatkoff and N. Piatkoff have been married at all times material. However, at that point, the Agency’s case breaks down. Part of the Agency’s prima facie case is to show that N. Piatkoff and Northwest applied for their license “in anticipation of or subsequent to denial, suspension, revocation or refusal to renew [B. Piatkoff’s] license.” Although the Agency charged that N. Piatkoff went into business because B. Piatkoff was aware of factors that would cause him to lose his license, the record contains nothing more than speculation to support that charge. B. Piatkoff testified that he decided to get out of the farm labor contractor business and focus on construction, but agreed to help his wife Natalia when she decided she wanted to see if
sham means to act intentionally so as to give a false impression.” In the Matter of Basilio Piatkoff,