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 '''5. In what other ways may we sin against the Seventh Commandment?'''

1. By gambling and other extravagances injurious to one's family; 2. By evading our just share of public burdens, such as paying taxes; 3. By wasting or appropriating public money unjustly; 4. By usurious practices.

6. Who are guilty of usurious practices?

1. Those who exact unlawful interest for money loaned; 2. Those who purchase in large quantities articles of food and other necessaries, in order to obtain more than a just price for them; 3. In general, those who in trade take unfair advantage of their neighbor's ignorance or necessity.

7. May we also grievously sin against the Seventh Commandment by petty thefts or frauds?

Yes: 1. When we so often repeat them that the owner suffers a considerable loss, and even when we have only the intention of thus repeating them; and 2. When the loss of a thing, trifling in itself, causes our neighbor a considerable injury.

8. What must we do when we are in possession of ill-gotten goods or have unjustly injured our neighbor?

We must restore the ill-gotten goods, and repair, as far as we are able, the injury done; without this we cannot obtain pardon from God.

9. Who is bound to make restitution or reparation?

1. He who is in possession of the thin,o-s stolen, or of their value, or who has really done the injury.

2. If he does not do it, the obligation devolves on those who, by counsel or action, were accessory to the sin, or who did not hinder it, although they were able to do so, and were bound by the duties of their station or office to hinder the wrong.

10. How much must be restored?

1. If one has knowingly and unjustly taken or de-