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Pilfering
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PilferingTheft, usually referring to theft of physical goods. In retail business, customer theft is known as Shoplifting and employee theft is called pilfering. Occasionally used also with theft of cash, especially petty cash or for small thefts.
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Theft
Crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny, . but it is not so technical.
Retail
To sell by retail, is to sell by small parcels, and not in the gross.
Shoplifting
Customer theft from retail inventory.
Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Pilfering
Theft, usually referring to theft of physical goods. In retail business, customer theft is known as Shoplifting and employee theft is called pilfering. Occasionally used also with theft of cash, especially petty cash or for small thefts.
Cash
Commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has to do business with.
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Pigeon drop
A fraud scheme that involves a wallet/purse/envelope with a large sum of money in it but no identification. The Perpetrator and Accomplice, together with the victim "finds" the wallet, and the victim is persuaded to withdraw a sum of money as "good faith" to share in the cache. The victim is distracted and the Perpetrators steal the money and disappear with it.
Pignoration
Civil law . This word is used by Justinian in the title of the 52d novel, and signifies not only a pledge of property, but an engagement of the person.
Pignorative contract
Civil law. A contract by which the owner of an estate engages it to another for a sum of money, and grants to him and his successors the right to enjoy it, until he shall be reimbursed, voluntarily, that sum of money.
Pignoris capio, rom
Civil law. The name given to one of the legis actiones of the Roman law. It consisted chiefly in the taking. of a pledge, and was in fact a mode of execution. It was confined to special cases determined by positive law or by custom, such as taxes, duties, rents and is comparable in some respects to distresses at common law. The proceeding took place in the presence of a praetor.
Pignus
Civil law. This word signifies in English, pledge or pawn.
Pilfering
Pillage
The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enenly. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. The property thus violently taken in general belongs to the common soldiers
Pillory
Punishment. Wooden machine in which the neck of the culprit is inserted.
Pilot
Merchant law. 1) An officer serving on board of a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and of the ship's route; 2) An officer authorized by law, who is taken on board at a particular place, for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, road or channel, or from or into port.
Pilotage
Contracts. The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port.
Pin money
Money allowed by a man to his wife to spend for her own personal comforts.
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Theft
Crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny, . but it is not so technical.
Retail
To sell by retail, is to sell by small parcels, and not in the gross.
Shoplifting
Customer theft from retail inventory.
Employee
One who is authorized to act for another; a mandatory.
Pilfering
Theft, usually referring to theft of physical goods. In retail business, customer theft is known as Shoplifting and employee theft is called pilfering. Occasionally used also with theft of cash, especially petty cash or for small thefts.
Cash
Commerce. Money on hand, which a merchant, trader or other person has to do business with.
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Pigeon drop
A fraud scheme that involves a wallet/purse/envelope with a large sum of money in it but no identification. The Perpetrator and Accomplice, together with the victim "finds" the wallet, and the victim is persuaded to withdraw a sum of money as "good faith" to share in the cache. The victim is distracted and the Perpetrators steal the money and disappear with it.
Pignoration
Civil law . This word is used by Justinian in the title of the 52d novel, and signifies not only a pledge of property, but an engagement of the person.
Pignorative contract
Civil law. A contract by which the owner of an estate engages it to another for a sum of money, and grants to him and his successors the right to enjoy it, until he shall be reimbursed, voluntarily, that sum of money.
Pignoris capio, rom
Civil law. The name given to one of the legis actiones of the Roman law. It consisted chiefly in the taking. of a pledge, and was in fact a mode of execution. It was confined to special cases determined by positive law or by custom, such as taxes, duties, rents and is comparable in some respects to distresses at common law. The proceeding took place in the presence of a praetor.
Pignus
Civil law. This word signifies in English, pledge or pawn.
Pilfering
Pillage
The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enenly. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. The property thus violently taken in general belongs to the common soldiers
Pillory
Punishment. Wooden machine in which the neck of the culprit is inserted.
Pilot
Merchant law. 1) An officer serving on board of a ship during the course of a voyage, and having the charge of the helm and of the ship's route; 2) An officer authorized by law, who is taken on board at a particular place, for the purpose of conducting a ship through a river, road or channel, or from or into port.
Pilotage
Contracts. The compensation given to a pilot for conducting a vessel in or out of port.
Pin money
Money allowed by a man to his wife to spend for her own personal comforts.
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