Infringements against the patrimony in the italian legislation

• Author: Andreea Cimpoeru
• Position: Candidate to Ph.D
• Pages: 69-74

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INFRINGEMENTS AGAINST THE PATRIMONY IN THE ITALIAN

LEGISLATION

Candidate to Ph.D Andreea Cimpoeru

Abstract:

The Italian Penal Law distinguishes among the infringements against the

patrimony, depending on the violence against a person, and or things, or has as a

fundament the fraud.

This classification became traditionally has been took over from the

Middle Age’s jurists who used to make difference between the facts against

patrimony committed by violence and those committed by fraud (aut vi, aut frauda

delinquitur).

However, the Italian penologists have underlined however that this

classification of the infringements against the patrimony doesn't include all the

infringements being multiple infringements that could not be placed in any of these

categories. Hence, the efforts of some authors to identify other larger

classifications of infringements against patrimony.

Opinions have been expressed in the sense of inutility of any

classifications, given that the permanent grow, under the modern life conditions, of

the forms and methods of aggression against the patrimony.

Key words: patrimony, fraud, Italian legislation, penal law.

The Italian Penal Law distinguishes among the infringements against the

patrimony, depending on the violence against a person, and or things, or has as a

fundament the fraud. This classification became traditionally has been took over

from the Middle Age’s jurists who used to make difference between the facts

against patrimony committed by violence and those committed by fraud (aut vi, aut

frauda delinquent). However, the Italian penologists have underlined however that

this classification of the infringements against the patrimony doesn't include all the

infringements being multiple infringements that could not be placed in any of these

categories. Hence, the efforts of some authors to identify other larger classifications

of infringements against patrimony. Opinions have been expressed in the sense of

inutility of any classifications, given that the permanent grow, under the modern

life conditions, of the forms and methods of aggression against the patrimony. The

argument that the purpose of the special part of the criminal law to facilitate the

profound knowledge of penal law and the correct solution of disputes arising out of