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1 online resource (xvi, 183 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Note |
Revised version of the author's doctoral thesis. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index. |
Contents |
Prelims; Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; Introduction; 1 The Legal Context of Armory; 2 The Possessor of Land Cases; 3 The Significance of the Facts of Loss; 4 The Obligations of a Finder; 5 Possession and the Rights of Finders; 6 Qualifications on the Acquisition of Right; 7 Defending the Doctrines; Epilogue: The Terminology of Possession and Property; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
Are finders keepers? This most simple of questions has long evaded a satisfactory legal answer. Generally it seems to have been accepted that a finder acquires a property right in the object of her find and can protect it from subsequent interference, but even this turns out to be the baldest statement of principle, resting on obscure and confused authority. This first full-length treatment of finders sets them in their legal-historical context, and discovers a fascinating area of law lying at the crossroads of crime, obligations, and property. That on the same facts a finder might be thief, ba. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Personal property -- Great Britain.
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Personal property. |
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Great Britain. |
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Possession (Law) -- Great Britain.
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Possession (Law) |
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Lost articles -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
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Lost articles -- Law and legislation. |
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Acquisition of property -- Great Britain.
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Acquisition of property. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Hickey, Robin. Property and the law of finders. Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2010 (DLC) 2010288707 |
ISBN |
9781847315557 (electronic book) |
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1847315550 (electronic book) |
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9781841135755 |
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1841135755 |
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