lost property – personal property involuntarily parted with through accident, negligence, neglect, carelessness, or inadvertence

     This page is continued from Law of Property >>>> Property >>>> Conditions of Property:

****************************

lost property:
(1810)

1. Property that the owner no longer possesses because of accident, negligence, or carelessness, and that cannot be located by an ordinary, diligent search. [1]

1. Personal property from which the owner has involuntarily parted through neglect, carelessness, or inadvertence. Danielson v Roberts, 44 Or 108, 74 P 913.

Property casually and unknowingly dropped by the owner. Flood v City Nat. Bank, 218 Iowa 898, 253 NW 509, 95 ALR 1168. [2]

1.Personal property with which the owner has involuntarily and unintentionally parted through neglect or carelessness.
     See larceny of lost, mislaid or misdelivered property. [3]

References:

Disclaimer: All material throughout this website is compiled in accordance with Fair Use.

[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary Deluxe Tenth Edition by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4

[2]: Ballantine’s Law Dictionary with Pronunciations Third Edition by James A. Ballantine (James Arthur 1871-1949).  Edited by William S. Anderson.  © 1969 by THE LAWYER’S CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING COMPANY.  Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-30931

[3]:  Ballantine’s Law Dictionary Legal Assistant Edition
by Jack Ballantine 
(James Arthur 1871-1949).  Doctored by Jack G. Handler, J.D. © 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.  ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.

************************

Back to Conditions of Property

Back to Property

Back to Law of Property

Home Page

Like this website?

Offer a contribution to Wild Willpower PAC

  • please set some widgets to show from Appearance -> Widgets.

 

Disclaimer: Wild Willpower PAC does not condone the actions of Maximilian Robespierre, however the above quote is excellent!

This website is being broadcast for First Amendment purposes courtesy of

Question(s)?  Suggestion(s)?
Distance@WildWillpower.org.
We look forward to hearing from you!