The problem of the delimitation between criminal and civil delict is still relevant. Especially it appears significant when attempting to find the delimitation criterions for the fraud and the civil delict. The aim of this Master’s thesis is to find the relation between the criminal and civil law, to analyze a fraud in all its legal aspects, to detect the elements constituting this criminal offence, its evolution and realization forms and to justify delimitation criterions between it and civil delict. Court practice in fraud field and its drawbacks are considered; also suggestions for development of law practice are given in this Master’s thesis. Hypothesis of this Master’s thesis is proposition, that there are three principal delimitation criterions between fraud and civil delict: deception, deprivation of access for creditor to maintain his (her) rights by means of civil law or imposition on these rights by means of deception and the deliberate tortuous intent.

Raktažodžiai: criminal liability, deception, apgaulė, sukčiavimas, baudžiamoji atsakomybė, fraud