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Lender/borrower rights

taram · 2009-09-19 22:51:59

Say I lent a DVD to a friend and he never gave it back to me, do I have any rights? Would he be entitled to ownership of that DVD after a set period? Is there anyway to get it back legally even if it was only like 20 euro new? Are there other terms and conditions of private lending of items? I assume you enter into a type…

19-09-2009 10:51pm

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taram

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Say I lent a DVD to a friend and he never gave it back to me, do I have any rights? Would he be entitled to ownership of that DVD after a set period? Is there anyway to get it back legally even if it was only like 20 euro new? Are there other terms and conditions of private lending of items? I assume you enter into a type of contract with libraries that covers all this?

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#2 20-09-2009 12:07am

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He has breached a contract of bailment.

You are entitled to sue for the value of the item or if you can show it has unique characteristics you can get a court order that it be delivered up to you.

The statute of limitations for this type of action is 6 years.

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