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Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property are categories of the common law of property which deals with personal property or chattel which has left the possession of its rightful owner without having directly entered the possession of another person. (Wikipedia)

It was plain that the instruments were still imperfect and incomplete, and that they were so when they left the possession of the railroad corporation. (Casetext)