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Should Patricia Be Tried To Keep Money?

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The modern phrase “finders keepers, losers weepers” means that whoever finds property or chattel is entitled to keep it. Nevertheless, some states may have different laws. “The laws usually require that a person who finds money … turn it over to the local police” (Baldwin). According to the traditional ethical standards regarding lost and abandoned property or finding money, Patricia should not have kept the money. On the contrary, she should have tried to find the owner and only kept the money if she could not locate the owner.
Despite the fact that Patricia did not know at first how much money she had picked up, she should have checked local laws or talk to police immediately. She did not see who dropped it and she did nothing to cause anyone

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