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Section — Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884)

§ V. On Recourse, or on the Receiver, or the One Furnishing Recourse; You Will Hold These Things:

685.
      1. A receiver, namely one who knowingly and freely furnishes security to a robber, is held concerning the damages thence arising. For thus he efficaciously and unjustly determines, or makes firmer, the will of the thief in the proposal either of stealing, or of not restoring, or of stealing again.

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685.
  1. Likewise merchants and especially innkeepers are held to restitution, who receive the thefts of sons under paternal power, servants, etc., or hide them, or even are accustomed to claim them for themselves as the price of merchandise, drinks, etc.

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685.
  1. Among receivers are not to be counted those who receive at home friends or blood-relatives who are malefactors; nor those who conceal them under hope of amendment, or show them the way by which they can flee, when they are sought for prison or for death. - St. Lig., n. 568. - See Casus, n. 672, 674.

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