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17. Fraud defined.- Fraud means and includes
any of the following acts committed by a party to a contract, or with his
connivance, or by his agent, with intent to deceive another party thereto or
his agent, or to induce him to enter into the contract:-
(1)
the
suggestion, as a fact, of that which is not true, by one who does not believe
it to be true;
(2)
the
active concealment of a fact by one having knowledge or belief of the fact.
7. In the
case before us, by seeking a no claim bonus, the petitioner made an assertion
that he had not taken any claim on the vehicle which he was seeking to insure
with the National Insurance Company.