Cash Found

Bazile | 11:58 Thu 28th Apr 2022 | Law

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If someone finds some cash on the street , what does the law requires he/she to do with it ?

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Ken4155

https://www.solicitors.com/finders-law.html

davebro

That it should be handed in to police & if not claimed becomes the property of the finder?

My BiL's mother found a briefcase containing several £1000 - idiot had driven off with it on top of his car. She received the handsome reward of £10!

dannyk13

Make an attempt to find the owner and if not found hand it in to the police.If not claimed within one month tha cash goes to the finder.

Ken4155

I've told this one before on AB. My daughter (then aged about 8 or 9) found a £20 note in our local shop and handed it in to the shop's owner, who praised my young 'un for her honesty.
Dad, however, took a different viewpoint and explained to his naive daughter that the money was probably lost by a customer but that it was now in the owner's till. Next time she finds any money, she should hand it to dad.
FF a few weeks, same shop, she finds another £20. This time she brings it home, hands it to dad who rewards said daughter by giving her £1.
The moral of this story is that honesty is not always the best policy. Obedience to one's parents is.

dannyk13

And what did dad do with the money?

TheChair

"The moral of this story is that honesty is not always the best policy. Obedience to one's parents is."
The moral of this story is crooked parents teach their kids dishonesty.

dannyk13

The chair, exactly.

Bazile

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She has handed it in to the police .
They took her name , address , tel number and DOB .

Why DOB ?

david small

My mother found a wallet forty years ago with £400 in it. She took time and trouble to find the owner. He got it back, put it in his back pocket and just walked off. Not so much as a thank you.

Ken4155

Chair and Danny, so the owner of the shop is the rightful owner of the money?
Hardly likely they lost it, is it.

Have a word with yourselves!

dannyk13

Ken,ypou should have a word with youself, what you did was pure and simple theft.Not a good example to a child.

pixie374

To check she is over 18, Baz? No doubt, just a form they have to fill in. My dad once handed in £2k he had found, and was given it back not long after.

Ken4155

By the way Danny, you holier than thouness, i spent it wisely.

dannyk13

Ken // I spent it wisely//
As I said, not a good example to a child.By the way "holier than thou" is not really appropriate, I am just honest.

Ken4155

^
Butter wouldn't melt.

dannyk13

Ken, your sarcasm is wasted on me.

Ken4155

And your holier than thou attitude is wasted on me, Danny.