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13 ‎[1] ‎[2] ‎[3] ‎[4] ‎[5] If one transacts business on word of honor, the law against defrauding does not apply to him. If, for example, one says : "I have bought this article for so much and I make so much profit on it," the purchaser can have no claim of fraud against him. ‎[6] ‎[7] ‎[8] The law of defrauding does not apply to the following items : real estate, slaves, deeds, and Temple property. Even if one has sold them for one denar when they are worth a thousand, or for a thousand when they are worth one denar, the law against defrauding does not apply to them, as it is written: "… or buy from your neighbor's hand" (Leviticus 25:14), meaning something transferred from hand to hand. Real estate is excluded, and so are slaves who are compared to landed property; deeds are excluded, since they have no intrinsic value and serve only for the evidence they contain. The term "your neighbor" excludes Temple property.
Version: Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, edited by Philip Birnbaum, New York, 1967
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