Definitions:
FRAUD:
"An actual or positive fraud is the intentional and successful employment of any cunning, deception, or artifice, used to circumvent, cheat, or deceive another". Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856.
"Fraud consists of some deceitful practice or willful device, resorted to with intent to deprive another of his right, or in some manner to do him an injury. As distinguished from negligence, it is always positive, intentional." Black's Law Dictionary 1910.
CLANDESTINE:
"That which is done in secret and contrary to law." Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856.
"Secret; hidden; concealed." Black's Law Dictionary 1910.
CONSPIRACY:
"An agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act, or an act which may become by the combination injurious to others." Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856.
"A combination or confederacy between two or more persons formed for the purpose of committing, by their joint efforts, some unlawful or criminal act, or some act which is innocent in itself, but becomes unlawful when done by the concerted action of the conspirators, or for the purpose of using criminal or unlawful means to the commission of an act not in itself unlawful." Black's Law Dictionary 1910.
MACHINATION:
"Contriving a plot or conspiracy. The act of planning or contriving a scheme for executing some purpose, particularly an evil purpose". Black's Law Dictionary 1910.
MAXIM: An established principle or proposition. A principle of law universally admitted, as being just and consonant with reason. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856.