Under what conditions will a court now find nondisclosure as having the same legal effect as an actual false assertion?

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Taking Information Seriously: Misrepresentation and Nondisclosure in Contract Law and Elsewhere

Virginia Law Review

Vol. 92, No. 4 (Jun., 2006)

, pp. 565-632 (68 pages)

Published By: Virginia Law Review

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4145003

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The Virginia Law Review is a journal of general legal scholarship published by the students of the University of Virginia School of Law. The continuing objective of the Virginia Law Review is to publish a professional periodical devoted to legal and law-related issues that can be of use to judges, practitioners, teachers, legislators, students, and others interested in the law. First formally organized on April 23, 1913, the Virginia Law Review today remains one of the most respected and influential student legal periodicals in the country.

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