Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court November 15, 1841 (Wentworth v. Day)

Shaw, C. J.

Although the finder of lost property on land has no right of salvage, at common law, yet if the loser of property, in order to stimulate the vigilance and industry of others to find and restore it, will make an express promise of a reward, either to a particular person, or in general terms to any one who will return it to him, and, in consequence cf such offer, one does return it to