Stolen goods. As to restitution, see (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 45, and Arch Cr. Pr., 1934, pp. 293 et seq.
Where goods have been stolen and the offender is prosecuted to conviction, the property in the goods so stolen revests in the person who was the owner of the goods or his personal representative, notwithstanding any intermediate dealing with them, whether by selling in market overt (see that title) or otherwise; but if obtained by fraud, etc., not amounting to larceny, aliter, Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 24. S. 102, Larceny Act, 1861, prohibits advertising a reward for the return of any property either lost or stolen and intimating that no questions will be asked without apprehension of the person returning the property, under a penalty of 50l.
As to the crime of 'receiving' goods knowing them to have been stolen, see RECEIVER OF STOLEN PROPERTY.
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