2003 Pa. Super. 150 - Commonwealth v. Sargent’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “[T]he credit card receipts constituted “document[s] evidencing, creating, transferring, altering, terminating, or otherwise affecting legal relations.” Just as the sales receipt in Sneddon created a legal relationship between the buyer and seller of goods, so did the credit card receipts in this case. Appel lant’s signing of the credit card receipts set forth the contract to pay for the merchandise purchased, however, Appellant clearly had no such intent. Moreover, as the learned trial judge specifically reasoned: [Appellant] clearly altered the legal relationship between the Victim and his credit card companies by changing the outstanding balances of his credit cards. [Appellant] also created a legal relationship, a contract, between the Victim and the stores involved. A credit card receipt is a signed sales receipt that evidences a contract for the sale of goods between the buyer and seller. When a person signs a credit card slip they are creating a contract, a legal relationship, stating that they will pay the amount indicated on the slip.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2006 Pa. Super. 290 - Commonwealth v. Ryan