2010-03-29, 04:14 PM
Scenario 1: If something is discarded the original owner gives away all rights and privileges of ownership.
if i throw away a sandwich, half eaten, and a homeless man comes up after and takes it and starts to eat it, i cannot rightfully claim that to be my sandwich since i relinquished ownership of it by discarding it.
Scenario 3: If one can identify a personal posession at the time of its location in the possession of another person, person 1 has full right to that item.
Consider an enderly woman is robbed blind by her son's girlfriend one day and sells the jewelry to a pawn shop. If the grandmother contacts the police, and later the pawn shop owner gives the police a location of some of the stolen jewelry, then the woman can then claim it. i only know of this because this happened to my own grandmother.
if i throw away a sandwich, half eaten, and a homeless man comes up after and takes it and starts to eat it, i cannot rightfully claim that to be my sandwich since i relinquished ownership of it by discarding it.
Scenario 3: If one can identify a personal posession at the time of its location in the possession of another person, person 1 has full right to that item.
Consider an enderly woman is robbed blind by her son's girlfriend one day and sells the jewelry to a pawn shop. If the grandmother contacts the police, and later the pawn shop owner gives the police a location of some of the stolen jewelry, then the woman can then claim it. i only know of this because this happened to my own grandmother.