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Conflict Of Laws In Multistate Fraud And Deceit, William O. Beach Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

Unlike most conflict of laws questions, the choice-of-law problem in tort actions based on multistate fraud and deceit has been given surprisingly little attention. Until recent years the problem had been raised in but two or three reported cases, and no real attempt had been made to analyze and clarify it. The recognition and scanty treatment of the problem in the Restatement of Conflict of Laws' has perhaps been primarily responsible for the growing awareness of it in the courts in the past two decades. Nevertheless, neither the courts nor the secondary authorities have come forward with a thorough study …

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