Ignore that. Is a battle cry, not case law. Don't believe me? Look that case up and see if SCOTUS did anything about alleged fraud. Answer: nope...threw the case out. No court heard the fraud claim from that case. The quote people keep throwing around is actually quoted in the case from an early 1700s legal treatise. It isn't even the words of the court.
Ignore that. Is a battle cry, not case law. Don't believe me? Look that case up and see if SCOTUS did anything about alleged fraud. Answer: nope...threw the case out. No court heard the fraud claim from that case. The quote people keep throwing around is actually quoted in the case from an early 1700s legal treatise. It isn't even the words of the court.
It shouldn't be ignored. It needs to be taken up from where it was left by the side of the road and hailed as a battle cry - as you suggest.
Because fraud in any deal poisons the whole deal.