LOST

An article is "lost" when the owner has lost the po e ion or custody of it, in• voluntarily and by any means, but mort! particularly by accident or his own negligence or forgetfulne , and when he is ignorant 01' its whereabouts or cannot recover it by an ordinarily diligent search. See State Sav. Bank v. Buhl, 129 Mich. 193, 88 N. _w. 471, 56 L. R. A.. 944; Belote v. State, 36 Mi . 120, 72 Am. Dec. 163; Hoagland v. Amuse:. ment Co., 170 Mo. 335, 70 S. W. 878, 94 Am. St. Rep. 740. As applied to ships and ve els, the term means "lost at sea," ·and a ve el lost is one that has totally gone from the owners against their will, so that they know noth· ing of it, whether it st111 exists or not, or one which they know is no longer within their use and control, either in consequence of capture by enemies or pirates, or an un- 1mown foundering, or sinking by a known storm, or collision, or destruction by ship- [s. 745]