Chapter — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology
Chapter II. First Root of Restitution
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THE first root of restitution is the possession of another person’s property without any just title. 'This possession may hitherto have been in good faith without any suspicion that the property belonged to somebody else, or it may have been in bad faith with the knowledge that someone else was the rightful owner, or in doubtful faith with doubts about the ownership. The obligations of the possessor of another’s property will be different in these three cases. We will treat of them in the three following sections:
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