and resurfaces years later, and you buy it at a thriftstore, unawares of it's value and history. Somehow you find out it's value and sell it at auction, when the original owner comes to claim it was stolen from him. Now, since you paid for it at the thriftstore, who does the painting belong to? Lawfully?
2007-02-28 02:59:57 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
it belongs to you. you pruchased the painting (in good faith) from the thrift shop not knowing it was stolen.
2007-02-28 07:07:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the true law in that matter but I would think that it belongs to you. You had no way of knowing that it was stolen and if the other person wants it back, they need to buy it back from you for at least what you paid for it.
2007-02-28 12:03:55 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
seems your the looser here, the painting belongs to the original owner. Ask the guys who found 22 tons of gold in the ocean, and 22 insurance companies wanted to take it.
2007-03-04 06:26:17 · answer #3 · answered by allen w 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legally it belongs to the person it was stolen from. everyone else, whether knowingly or not, was dealing in stolen property and the transactions were illegal.
2007-02-28 11:08:19 · answer #4 · answered by fat_albert_999 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm an attorney and I'm sure "fat albert's" answer is right. If I got the name of the answerer wrong, it was the first answer posted.
2007-02-28 11:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋