Indictable cheat
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 1 U.S. 335 - Respublica v. Teischer · 1788Most cited · 5 citing opinions
false weights, measures, or tokens
in such impositions or deceits where common prudence may guard persons against the suffering from them, the offence is not indictable, but the party is left to his civil remedy for the redress of the injury that has been done him; but where false weights and measures are used, or false tokens produced, or such methods taken to cheat and deceive, as people cannot by any ordinary care or prudence be guarded against, there it is an offence indictable.
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