... to provide the information about the chip find involved here. At least, there would be no criminal liability for failing to do so; furthermore, I doubt that there is any civil liability, either.

>> David's and my point addressed the ethical and possible legal question of
>> leaving out certain fact's regarding a item for sale which drastically
>> affected the value of the chip. This omission, in our opinion, is the same
>> as stating the untruth.

From a legal point of view, there is a huge difference between stating lying and lying by omission. Nevertheless, as I have said in other posts on this subject, I think there was an ethical obligation here which Dean failed to live up to. ----- jim o\-S