PROPERTY RIGHTS, RESTITUTION AND FRAUD: DISCIPLINING WRONGDOING IN CAPITALIST SYSTEMS
Abstract
The Anglo-American ability to award of property rights in order to achieve justice in personam marks a conceptual difference between civil and common law systems. ‘Property’ is an adjectival concept at common law. Judicial orders made on restitutionary claims may the status of property owner on the victims of wrongdoing. This paper examines the way in which the interrelation of property rights, restitution and fraud is used as an anti-fraud weapon in capitalist countries with common law legal systems.
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