Re: [photo-3d] Re: Grant's RBT (a legal pespective)

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:37 AM 3/8/2001, Jim Norman wrote:
>      First, there's the "common law" (that's law that has evolved over time 
>as a result of court decisions, rather than legislation) of "trover."  
>("Trover" comes from the Old French verb "to find.")  The starting point in 
>the law of trover is that the finder of a lost or mislaid object "has good 
>title against all the world save the true owner."

Doesn't this conflict with the even older and more common law: "Finders keepers, losers weepers?"

-pd



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