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Property is generally deemed to have been abandoned if it is found in a place where the true owner likely intended to leave it, but is in such a condition that it is apparent that he or she has no intention of returning to claim it. Abandoned property generally becomes the property of whoever should find it and take possession of it first ...
Unowned property includes tangible, physical things that are capable of being reduced to being property owned by a person but are not owned by anyone. Bona vacantia (Latin for "ownerless goods") is a legal concept associated with the unowned property, which exists in various jurisdictions, with a consequently varying application, but with origins mostly in English law.
Adverse possession in common law, and the related civil law concept of usucaption (also acquisitive prescription or prescriptive acquisition), are legal mechanisms under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property, usually real property, may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation without the permission of its legal owner.
A 10-month NBC News investigation laid out in stark detail how two of the country’s most populous counties sent unclaimed bodies to a Texas medical school, which used them for medical training ...
The letter follows a NBC investigation describing how the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth has used unclaimed bodies from Dallas and Tarrant County for medical ...
Dallas County began posting names to the system in December. In publishing this list, NBC News is sharing only a person’s name, gender, race, age at death, the date their body was delivered to ...
The use of res nullius as a legal concept continues in modern civil legal systems. Examples of res nullius are wild animals (ferae naturae) or abandoned property (res derelictae). Finding can also be a means of occupatio (i.e. vesting ownership), since a thing completely lost or abandoned is res nullius, and therefore belonged to the first ...
The law proposal comes after an NBC News investigation into a program at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. North Texas lawmaker wants to prohibit using unclaimed ...