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==Stealing Clients or Employees== | ==Stealing Clients or Employees== | ||
#If someone paid for a movable item and didn't yet take it neither the buyer | #If someone paid for a movable item and didn't yet take it neither the buyer nor seller should renege on the sale. If they do chazal enacted a particular curse called "mi she'parah" for engaging in such activities.<ref>Shulchan Aruch 204:1</ref> | ||
#Someone who verbally agreed to a sale but didn't yet pay, it is proper to keep your word.<ref>Shulchan Aruch CM 204:7</ref> | #Someone who verbally agreed to a sale but didn't yet pay, it is proper to keep your word.<ref>Shulchan Aruch CM 204:7</ref> | ||
#If someone has made an effort to acquire a free item, | #If someone has made an effort to acquire a free item, some say it is wrong for someone else to beat him to it and "steal it."<ref>Rashi Kiddushin 59a s.v. ani, Ramban Bava Batra 54b. See also Rashbam Bava Batra 54b</ref> Others permit this if there's only one of the kind of that free item.<ref>Tosfot Kiddushin 59a s.v. ani</ref> | ||
#Everyone agrees if the first person put in effort<ref>Masat Binyamin 27 writes that the amount of effort necessary for it to be considered forbidden for the second to take the free item is only if the first person anticipated that he would certainly get it. See Chatom Sofer 79.</ref> to acquire the free item and he anticipated getting it the second one may not take it from him.<ref>Mordechai Kiddushin 524, Ritva Kiddushin 59a</ref> | #Everyone agrees if the first person put in effort<ref>Masat Binyamin 27 writes that the amount of effort necessary for it to be considered forbidden for the second to take the free item is only if the first person anticipated that he would certainly get it. See Chatom Sofer 79.</ref> to acquire the free item and he anticipated getting it the second one may not take it from him.<ref>Mordechai Kiddushin 524, Ritva Kiddushin 59a</ref> | ||
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*Article on [http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/hasagatgevul.html Hasagat Gevul: Economic Competition in Jewish Law] by Rabbi Chaim Jachter | *Article on [http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/hasagatgevul.html Hasagat Gevul: Economic Competition in Jewish Law] by Rabbi Chaim Jachter | ||
*Article on [http://dinonline.org/2015/08/31/opening-shop-laws-of-hasagas-gevul/ Opening Shop? Laws of Hasagas Gevul] by Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer | *Article on [http://dinonline.org/2015/08/31/opening-shop-laws-of-hasagas-gevul/ Opening Shop? Laws of Hasagas Gevul] by Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer | ||
*[http://www.workplacehalacha.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Hebrew-Hasagas-Gevul-Parts-1-and-2.pdf Sources] and [http://www.workplacehalacha.com/category/choshen-mishpat/hasagas-gevul-unfair-competition/ explanation] from Rabbi Ari Wasserman | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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