In this book the author discusses the issue, whether the perpetrator fulfills the legal elements of the crime of fraud in accordance with the § 263 of German Criminal Code, when he misrepresents the future events. This is a question of the necessary legal element “facts” of the crime of fraud in German criminal law. According to prevailing opinion, the element “facts” excludes future events. Based on this research, the reason for this exclusion is that the expression “future facts” is already a contradictio in adjecto. The “facts” are the entirety of real conditions of the statement which contained in the sentence expressed by the perpetrator. Future events can only be probably or not. They can not be real or not at the moment when they are talked about. However, through the existing basis man can previously assess the probability of future events. That is to say, the perpetrator can misrepresent the existing basis of future events, but not the future events themselves. The aim of the norm of fraud in German criminal law is to protect the legal interest (property) in each disposition-related situation against ist loss. The element “facts” should be purposive rationally understood according to the norm of the crime of fraud. We can find a qualified mean against the legal interest of the norm of fraud and thus jeopardizes the property, on condition that the perpetrator misrepresents the information which constitute the basis for the disposition of property.
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