Question 751
Legal Reasoning
2011
Medium
MCQ
+1.00 marks · -0.25 negative
Rule: Whoever finds an unattended object can keep it unless the true owner claims that object. This does not affect the property owner's light to the ownership of the property on which the object is found. The right to ownership of a property does not include the right to ownership of unattended objects on that property.
Facts: Elizabeth is the CEO of a global management services company in Chennai and is on her way to Ranchi to deliver the convocation address at India's leading business school on the outskirts of Ranchi. Flying business class on Dolphin Airlines, she is entitled to use the lounge owned by the airline in Chennai Airport while waiting for her flight. She finds a diamond earring on the flood of the lounge and gives it to the staff of Dolphin Airlines expressly stating that in the event of nobody claiming the earring within six month, she would claim it back. The airline sells the earring after eight months and Elizabeth files a case to recover the value of the earring from the airline when she is informed about its sale.
To the original fact scenario, the following fact is added: In the lounge there are numerous signboards which proclaim 'Any unattended item will be confiscated by Dolphin Airlines'. In this case, you would:
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