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Qitzur Shulchan Aruch - 62:11

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:19 PM PDT
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יא: חיבים ראשי הקהל להעמיד ממנים שיהיו מחזרים על החניות. וכל מי שנמצא אתו  
מדה חסרה או משקל חסר או מאזנים מקלקלים, רשאים להכותו ולקנסו כנראה בעיניהם

The heads of the community are obligated to appoint supervisors who will  
audit the shops. And whomever is found having with him a defective measure,  
deficient weight or crooked scale, they are entitle to beat him or hit him  
as they see fit.
Since the impact of dishonesty in business is communal, the community has a  
duty to enforce honesty amongst the individual storekeepers.



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Qitzur Shulchan Arukh - 62:10

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:14 PM PDT
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י: צריך למדוד כמנהג המדינה ולא ישנה כלל. מקום שנהגו לגדוש, לא ימחוק אפילו  
ברצון הלוקח שפחת לו מדמים. ומקום שנהגו למחוק, לא יגדוש אפילו ברצון המוכר  
שמוסיף לו דמים, כי התורה הקפידה על עוות המדות, פן תצא תקלה על ידי זה, שיראה  
הרואה שמודדין כך וידמה לו שכך היא מדת העיר, וימדד כן לאחר שאינו יודע גם כן  
את המנהג ויטעהו

One must measure according to the customs of the country and not change  
from that at all. In a place where they are accustomed to use heaping  
measures, he may not level off [the top] even by the desire of the buyer in  
order to pay him less. And in a place where they are accustomed to use  
level measures, do not heap up [above the top of the measuring cup / spoon  
/ etc...] even by the desire of the buyer who would pay him more. Because  
the Torah is concerned about false measures, lest a mishap will be caused  
by it. [E.g.] that a viewer may see that they measure accordingly and he  
would imagine that this is the way of measuring in this city, measure that  
way for another person who also doesnt know the actual custom, and mislead  
him.
This is more on the subject of false measures, and how the prohibition even  
goes beyond using them to cause theft.

To again repeat the Qitzur Shulchan Arukh 62:1:

This is the first question that they ask a person at the time they bring  
him to justice [after his passing], “Did you conduct your buying and  
selling with trustworthiness?

Not just honesty,emunah.



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