DEUT1454 Unlike other forms of theft, errors made with weights and measures have no minimal level, nor a “statute of limitations” restricting the time period within which redress can be sought. Claims which are of insignificant value are usually considered by the rabbis to be waived in the usual course of business; This is not so, however, in the case of weights and measures errors, since they involve a moral and religious infringement, which the parties to the transaction do not have the power to overlook, even if they so desire. Indeed, the above-mentioned portion of Deuteronomy instructs (25:13-15): “You shall not keep in your pocket [both] a large weight and a small one; neither shall you keep in your house [both] a small measure and a small one, [but rather,] one perfect and just weight shall you have; one perfect and just measure shall you have”-- the emphasis here being on the crime of even possessing such faulty measures, let alone using them.