Finders keepers, would you keep it? ( Archived) (37)

cripes Tomcat... I am on the otherside of the earth as it is... where the dickens else am I gonna hide...


Hang a mo... where's that fella Branson and his jet to outer space..

Cripes Merri, you could come to Finland, no wait a mo. meet me in Cyprus it's warmer

For your elucidation.


However, if finders want to abide by the law, they need to think carefully about who owns lost property - including cash, says Robert Chambers, professor of property law at University College London.
People scavenging cargo, 2007
Finders hoped to keep cargo washed up on Branscombe beach
While losers may no longer have physical possession of an item, they still retain legal entitlement to it.
Therefore, in England and Wales, as well as in most other countries across the world, the onus is on the finder to take what the law describes as "reasonable steps" to track down the loser.
"And that depends on where it has been found," says Professor Chambers. "In the airport you should go to the authorities, if it is in the street you should go to the police."
In the same way, those claiming ship-wrecked goods are obliged to notify the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's Receiver of Wrecks, and those finding buried treasure must notify the local coroner.
And in the case of winning lottery tickets, finders should advise organisers Camelot.
But what action is required often depends on what's found, says John Spencer, professor of law at the University of Cambridge.
"If you pick up a £1 coin, you can keep it unless you saw someone drop it, as you would not be able to find the owner by taking reasonable steps.

LOTTERY TICKET FINDERS ADVICE
Shopkeeper selling a lottery ticket
Make adequate steps to reunite ticket with original owner
Send ticket to Camelot, stating circumstances of the find
If no prize claim or lost ticket notice made within 180 days, Camelot can decide to pay finder
But if claimant fails to state ticket is lost property, and original owner disputes the claim, it may become a police matter
Source: Camelot
"But if you found four or five £20 notes in a gutter - as I once did - you probably will find the owner as they are likely to contact the police, as they did in my case."
Yet, despite these legal requirements, there are certain circumstances in which a finder can legally become a keeper.
For example, someone can retain something if it has been abandoned, says Professor Spencer.
"You are only guilty of theft if you appropriate the property of another. If someone has abandoned it, the property is yours," he says.
"For example, if I throw something away in the street and someone else picks up the litter, that is not theft."
Furthermore, a finder may eventually earn the right to keep discovered property if they take the correct steps to find whoever lost it, says Professor Chambers.
"If you find something in the street, the law says you have more right to it than everyone else - except the owner. If the true owner doesn't turn up, you can take ownership."
In this sense, he says, "finders keepers" does have some legal foundation, but only if "something has no owner any more".
So rather than "finders keepers, losers weepers", a more legally accurate adage might be the rather less succinct "finders may become keepers if they try to find the owner, but losers still have the best claim unless they have abandoned the item".

Sorry to disappoint those rushing off to the scene,only £60,000!

Well slap my thigh and call me Peter, only £60.000 who skimmed off the resy

Only 60 Grand ever mentioned to my knowledge.

If it was me I'd hand it in and hope it was ill gotten and nobody claimed it and it was turned over to me...... Well I never said I was perfect. Oh I'd donate 20 quid to the police ball fund.

Tight git!

But for you my flower a flower

Just one question lol ..... how many Tomcatwarnes on here ?

Their attempts to imitate me pale into insignificance, by the way, in answer to the hundreds of email inquiries that is a mouses tail hanging out of my mouth,

No I wouldn't keep it.

it's you but what YOU ?????? I have got several requests with the same name !!!!!!!

really. well you know which is me, I am on your friends list. Any others that contact you are imposters

i have just emailed you about this subject, i am sorry for you that there are imposters but what can i do ? it's not written on their pages !!!!! and using the same photos, the same names ! phew

I have done a site search and there is only one tomcatwarne listed do a search yourself and you will see