Determining the Owner's Mindset

Issues of Theft

Taking an item before the owner abandons hope constitutes Theft as well as a violation of the rules of returning lost objects: Bava Metzia 26b

Taking an item with intent to return it, and then holding it after the owner abandons hope: Bava Metzia 26b

Waiting to take an item until the owners abandon hope of retrieval: Bava Metzia 26b

Abandoning hope of retrieval is marked by the owner's statement, "Oy, the Waste of Money!": Bava Metzia 23a

Whether the object belongs to the finder retroactively, once the owner gives up hope of its return: Bava Metzia 21b-22b

Differentiating in the Above, where there is/isn't a sign identifying the object: Bava Metzia 21b

Where the owner is heard to abandon hope of retrieval: Bava Metzia 21b

An owner will check his person regularly and discover a lost item, if it is valuable or heavy: Bava Metzia 21b [4x]

Abandoning hope when the item is still salvageable: Bava Metzia 22a

Where the item is salvalgeable through great effort, and the owner is/isn't running after it: Bava Metzia 22a

Whether orphans can be said to relinquish control of an object [because they don't have power to abandon their hold on items]: Bava Metzia 22b

A marked item which is lost in a running river or a churning sea: Bava Metzia 21b, 22b, 24b [2x], 27a

Items which the Jordan River took, and deposited on someone else's property: Bava Metzia 21b

Items which the Biran River took: Bava Metzia 24b

Dates blown from a tree, where there are/aren't bugs around to infest them: Bava Metzia 22b

An item taken by a wild animal: Bava Metzia 24a

An item in a place travelled by masses of Jews/non-Jews: Bava Metzia 24a-b, 26a

A vessel buried in/lying atop a garbage heap, where the heap is/isn't regularly cleared away: Bava Metzia 24a-b

Mindset of one staying in an inn: Bava Metzia 26a

One who sees a coin fall from 2 people: Bava Metzia 26a-b

One who sees a coin fall from 3 people: Bava Metzia 26b

Distinguishing in the Above 2 cases, where the coin has/hasn't a minimal value for each of the people involved: Bava Metzia 26b

Money lost in a sandy area: Bava Metzia 26b

Money lost in different locations in a store: Bava Metzia 26b

Money found in a shipment of merchandise, from a merchant/homeowner: Bava Metzia 26b, 26b-27a



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