An involuntary deposit is made:

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Terms Used In North Dakota Code 60-01-03

  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49

1.    By the accidental leaving or placing of personal property in the possession of any person without negligence on the part of its owner; or

2.    In cases of fire, shipwreck, inundation, insurrection, riot, or like extraordinary emergencies, by the owner of personal property committing it out of necessity to the care of any person.

The person with whom a thing is so deposited is bound to take charge of it if able to do so.