The Law of Veracity is Violated:
1. When we state as true what we do not know to be true. 2. When we intentionally produce a false impression. 3. When we find that we have, though undesignedly, conveyed a false impression, and do not hasten to correct it. 4. When we state a matter in the least degree different from the shape it has in our own minds. 5. When in the statement of what may be true in fact, we purposely omit any circumstances which are necessary to a correct apprehension of the truth. 6. When we exaggerate or extenuate any of these circumstances. 7. When we purposely arrange the facts of a true representation in such a manner as to deceive. 8. When, with intention to deceive, we accompany a statement with a look of the eye, a tone of the voice, a motion of the head, or anything which may influence the mind and conduce to a false impression. 9. When we answer a question evasively, so as to deceive, under the secret pretence that the inquirer has no right to know the truth. 10. When by word or act we create an expectation which we do not intend to fulfill. 11. When we create an expectation which, though we intend to fulfill it, we afterwards fail to fulfill, without due care to explain the cause of the failure. 12. When we do not fulfill a promise in every respect precisely as we supposed the promisee understood it. 13. When we fulfill a contract or a promise in every particular, except as to time, and make no effort, show no disposition, to give early notice that the delay was unavoidable.—Watchman and Reflector.