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Przestępstwo oszustwa w tzw. klasycznej postaci w ujęciu prawnoporównawczym
The Offence of Fraud in Its So-Called Classical Form from the Perspective of Comparative Law

Author(s): Krzysztof Wala, Piotr Poniatowski
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Criminology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: fraud; comparative criminal law;

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to the comparative law analysis of those criminal provisions which describe the offence of fraud in its so-called classical form. In the Polish Criminal Code, the discussed type of fraud is described by Art. 286 § 1 and 3 which is placed in Chapter XXXV entitled Offences Against Property. The analysis refers to the legal systems of some European countries such as: England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Ireland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, Romania, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia and Bulgaria. The paper closes with concluding remarks in which the authors point to the similarities and differences among the analysed regulations.

  • Issue Year: 26/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 75-87
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Polish