Re: FN-FORUM: Winning the Lottery - Advice

date posted 13th January 2006 19:18

Robin's right, as was a another poster, as far as law goes. Thre's a general
presumption against donation.

Then again, so is Dom. It was indeed a lottery, or game of chance, and
unless otherwise specified by rules the game and how it's operated are all
part of that chance.

Still think making the offer of giving the other winner half, once saved, is
the fair option.

Mike A.
ps... How long will this thread continue? It's hardly web/design/development
stuff!


Dom Latter wrote:
> On Friday 13 Jan 2006 6:12 pm, Robin Vickery wrote:
>> On 13 Jan 2006 17:50:38 -0000, Alain Williams [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:44:17PM -0000, Robin Vickery wrote:
>>>> Generally, if someone pays you money by mistake, then they're
>>>> entitled to restitution. Just because your brother's spent it,
>>>> doesn't make it his. Neither does the fact that it wasn't his
>>>> mistake.
>>>
>>> The real question is when he is going to pay it back. Since it
>>> wasn't his mistake he should not have to pay it back so quickly
>>> that he ''suffers''.
>>
>> Yeah, I quite agree. The best bet is to come to some reasonable
>> agreement on a schedule of payments.
>
> I don't. It's a lottery. There was a winner. It was Richard's
> brother. If somebody "made a mistake" and thinks that someone else
> should get the money - why don't *they* come up with it?