Statute of Frauds

Top Five Cyber Frauds

In last three decades the attacks against the personal information, social information and financial information become more frequent and sophisticated. Initially, the purpose of cyber attack was the entertainment but as scenario has changed, internet is now seen as wonderful tool to conduct fraud or to grasp the information about anyone else. The paper shows how internet is important for cyber...

Artificial insemination--a model statute.

A Plea for a Statute

The well-known tendency of the lawyer engaged in the drafting of conveyances is to adhere as closely as possible to the beaten paths; to follow the forms handed down from the fathers; to view with suspicion and close scrutiny any departure therefrom, and to insert new clauses and covenants only when convinced that they are demanded by the necessities engendered by tonditions and enterprises unk...

The slayer statute and insanity.

It is common law that persons cannot benefit from their crimes. For this reason, most states have enacted slayer rules that prevent a killer from sharing in the victim's estate. However, terms in the slayer rules, such as willful and unlawful, can be difficult to apply, as illustrated by the situation in which a slayer is found not guilty by reason of insanity. The Washington Supreme Court has ...

On Detecting Frauds in Comparison-Shopping Services

In comparison-shopping services (CSS), there exist frauds who perform excessive clicks on a target item in order to boost the popularity of it. In this paper, we introduce the problem of detecting frauds in CSS and propose three anomaly scores designed based on click behaviors of users in CSS.