Search results for "Fraud"

The barratry of the shipmaster in early modern law: polysemy and mos Italicus

2019

Summary ‘Barratry’ is a polysemic term: it means deceit, bribe, simony, and fraud of the shipmaster. This article seeks to trace the origins of the word and to explore its different meanings, focusing especially on the influence that older meanings had on the development of more recent ones. This operation is of particular importance to understand the meaning of barratry that would appear for last – that of fraud of the shipmaster. By the time civil lawyers started dealing with maritime barratry, they were already well familiar with the other meanings of the term. This probably favoured the adaptation process, but it also left a deep mark on its outcome: the weight of those other meanings o…

The Barratry of the Shipmaster in Early Modern Law: The Approach of Italian and English Law Courts

2019

Summary For a long time, the concept of barratry (at least in its maritime meaning) was one and the same on both sides of the Channel. The barratry of the shipmaster was part of the mercantile usages, and it identified the intentionally blameworthy conduct of the master. When law courts began to decide on insurance litigation they were confronted with a notion quite alien to them. Broadly speaking, the shipmaster’s barratry could well be considered a fraud of sort. But in order to decide on its occurrence in a specific case, law courts had to analyse it in legal terms, and so according to the specific legal categories of their own system. The point ceases to be trivially obvious if we think…

Regalismo e inmunidad eclesiástica en la España del siglo XVIII : la resistencia del clero valenciano a la imposición del estanco del tabaco

2007

El decreto de abolición de los fueros de los Reinos de Valencia y Aragón mantuvo vigente la normativa tradicional sobre la jurisdicción e inmunidad eclesiástica, ratificándose esta excepción en la Real Cédula de 7 de septiembre de 1707. Considerando que ello implicaba un reforzamiento de sus privilegios, los miembros de dicho estamento presentaron una intensa resistencia a la imposición del estanco del tabaco, que la monarquía contemplaba como una «regalía notoria» inherente a su soberanía. Inicialmente, la oposición fue asumida por la jerarquía eclesiástica y generó enfrentamientos jurisdiccionales de tal gravedad que Felipe V procedió a la emisión de disposiciones de carácter regalista en…

The Role of Fraudulent Transfer Rules in Corporate Insolvency

2008

"The article is based on a lecture given by the author in Paris on the 12. October 2007 in the context of a Symposium devoted to corporate insolvency law. It deals with the role of fraudulent transfer rules in company law. The research is carried out on the field of comparative and European law. It therefore starts from a stipulative definition of [UTF-8?]“fraudulent transfer [UTF-8?]rules†which excludes preferences (even if they belong to the matter, in some legal systems) but includes the regulations aimed at subordinating [UTF-8?]shareholders’ loans. The paper demonstrates that the different [UTF-8?]“fraudulent transfer [UTF-8?]rules†adopted by principal EU Member States conver…

¿La ONU, irrecuperable? / 1

2005

Udaremnienie lub ograniczenie zaspokojenia wierzycieli przez niewypłacalnego przedsiębiorcę - wybrane aspekty karnoprawne

2018

Ethical Judgment of Food Fraud. Effects on Consumer Behavior

2019

This study brings important insights for the food industry by addressing how consumers ethically judge or evaluate unethical firm behavior, in specific reference to food fraud, and if and to what e...

Corporate social irresponsibility: review and conceptual boundaries

2017

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to carry out a review of the academic literature about corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) highlighting aspects that help us to define socially irresponsible behaviour and its relationship with socially responsible behaviour.Design/methodology/approachThrough a Boolean search of studies related to terms of irresponsibility undertaken from 1956 to October 2016, the authors develop a review of the literature focussing on the main perspectives used for defining the term of CSIR.FindingsThe paper provides a framework of three main dimensions for understanding the differences in the literature that defines CSIR: who defines irresponsible behaviour, an imp…

Corrupción y poder

2008

Fraudolente alterazioni fisiche per impedire l’identificazione personale (art. 495-ter)

2022

Trattazione scientifica e divulgativa del delitto di cui all'art. 495-ter c.p.