Bruce runs back the odometer on his car to make it appear as if it had fewer miles. Wally buys the car. When he checks back through past sale reports through his state's title office, Wally discovers that the car had fewer miles when Bruce sold it to him than it had when a previous owner sold it to Bruce. In legal terms, in selling the car knowing that he had tampered with the odometer, Bruce is said to have had .

Bruce is said to have had scienter.

Explanation:

Scienter is a term most commonly used in law which says that the person intently did wrong to benefit from the situation and the intent is to damaging other in terms of monetary value. In this case, Bruce intently manipulated facts by tampering odometer which would had a significant impact on the decision making of Wally. So this intentional manipulation of facts to use it to benefit from the other is Scienter.

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