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  2. Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property - Wikipedia

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    Property is generally deemed to have been lost if it is found in a place where the true owner likely did not intend to set it down and where it is not likely to be found by the true owner. At common law, the finder of a lost item could claim the right to possess the item against any person except the true owner or any previous possessors. [3] [2]

  3. Lost and found - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, the lost-and-found property system dates to a code written in the year 718. [1] The first modern lost and found office was organized in Paris in 1805. Napoleon ordered his prefect of police to establish it as a central place "to collect all objects found in the streets of Paris", according to Jean-Michel Ingrandt, who was appointed the office's director in 2001. [2]

  4. Archimedes Palimpsest - Wikipedia

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    In April 2007, it was announced that a new text had been found in the palimpsest, a commentary on Aristotle's Categories running to some 9 000 words. Most of this text was recovered in early 2009 by applying principal component analysis to the three color bands (red, green, and blue) of fluorescent light generated by ultraviolet illumination.

  5. Theft by finding - Wikipedia

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    R. v. Glyde (1868) 11 Cox C. C. 103 (sovereign found in high road) R. v. Deavis (1869) 11 Cox C. C. 227 (prisoner's child found six sovereigns in public place) An issue may arise when a person takes possession of lost property with the intention of returning it to the owner after inquiry but later converts the property to the finder's use.

  6. Notice - Wikipedia

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    At common law, notice is the fundamental principle in service of process. In this case, the service of process puts the defendant "on notice" of the allegations contained within the complaint, or other such pleading. Since notice is fundamental, a court may rule a pleading defective if it does not put the defendant on notice.

  7. Lost and Found (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Lost and Found: Love Starved Heart, by Marvin Gaye, 1999; Lost and Found: You've Got to Earn It (1962–1968), by the Temptations, 1999; Lost N Found, by JJ Lin, 2011; Losst and Founnd, by Harry Nilsson, 2019; Lost & Found, by Green Velvet, 2009; Lost & Found, by Jetboy, 1999; Lost and Found, by RTZ, 2004; Lost & Found (1986–1989), by the ...

  8. Bixby letter - Wikipedia

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    Writing to William E. Chandler in 1904, Hay said "the letter of Mr. Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby is genuine", [53] but he may only have been referring to its text. [54] In a 1917 letter to historian Isaac Markens, Robert Todd Lincoln said Hay had told him that he did not have "any special knowledge of the letter at the time" it was written. [55] [56]

  9. Found Magazine - Wikipedia

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    A sister magazine, Dirty Found, started publication in 2004. Dirty Found was started to provide a home for the smuttier, more explicit and generally sexually themed finds that Rothbart and Bitner wanted to segregate from the more conservative Found. Since 2008, Dirty Found has been out of print and will not be reprinted.