LAW 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Bailment, Situation Two, Subrogation
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Personal property moveable: tangible can touch (goods/chattels) How to acquire ppr: by contract, by gift, by possession (wild animal, intentionally abandoned bike, by finding. Occupier is entitled to things that are found in private but not public parts of its premises. Parker found a gold bracelet in the executive lounge at heathrow airport in london. He turned bracelet over to british airways and make it clear that if the owner didn"t claim it, he wanted it. Owner never claimed it and ba sold it for 850. Instead of giving the money to p, ba kept it on the basis that anything found on their property is theirs. Judge agreed that an occupier in entitles to personal property if it is found in an area over which the occupier had a manifested intention to exercise control. That may be true if p has discovered the bracelet under a desk in an office.