All too often we hear of people finding a tame bid and either keeping it, selling it or giving it away - here is some general information for you to share regarding • Animals as Property under the Law Under the law in Australia and many other jurisdictions animals are afforded a status similar to that of inanimate objects, whereby they are the subject of absolute property. Under the current law animals continue to be viewed as items of property. They are included within the definition of goods for the purpose of the Australian Consumer Law Consumer Guarantees Regime5 • Disposing of or re-homing an animal can also lead to this - being charged for theft property has the same meaning as it has in the Crimes Act 1900 . Property includes every description of real and personal property; money, valuable securities, debts, and legacies; and all deeds and instruments relating to, or evidencing the title or right to any property, or giving a right to recover or receive any money or goods; and includes not only property originally in the possession or under the control of any person, but also any property into or for which the same may have been converted or exchanged, and everything acquired by such conversion or exchange, whether immediately or otherwise. Theft by finding From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Theft by finding occurs when someone who chances upon an object which seems abandoned takes possession of the object but fails to take steps to establish whether the object is abandoned and not merely lost or unattended.[1] In some jurisdictions the crime is called larceny by finding or stealing by finding.[2][3] If the owner has renounced all property rights in the object, then the property is abandoned.[1] Since theft is the unlawful taking of another persons property, an essential element of the actus reus of theft is absent.[2] The finder of lost property acquires a possessory right by taking physical control of the property, but does not necessarily have ownership of the property. The finder must take reasonable steps to locate the owner.[1] If the finder shows that reasonable steps to find the owner have been taken then the finder may establish that the required mens rea for theft, the intention to deprive the owner permanently, is absent.[2]
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:03:27 +0000
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