RINGING THE CHANGES

ringing the changes.Fraud consisting in the offender’s using a large bill to pay for a small

purchase, waiting for the shopkeeper to put change on the counter, and then, by a series of

maneuvers involving changes of mind — such as asking for some other article of little value or for

smaller change for some of the money on the counter — creating a confused situation in which the

offender picks up much more of the money than is really due. [Cases: Larceny 14(1). C.J.S.

Larceny §§ 1(4), 20, 32.] [Blacks Law 8^th]