If he determines it or gives it away, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If it has been relinquished, but he perceives that it has not, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If it has been relinquished, but he is unsure of it, he commits an offense of wrong conduct. If it has been relinquished, and he perceives that it has, there is no offense.

Non-offenses There is no offense: if the other person gives it or he uses it after taking the other person’s property on trust; if he is insane; if he is the first offender. The training rule on using assigned property that has not been relinquished, the ninth, is finished.

Theravāda Collection on Monastic Law The Great Analysis The chapter on offenses entailing confession The subchapter on drinking alcohol Hiding a robe

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