Legal Question in Criminal Law in New Jersey

Automobile left with friend

A man (MAN A) has financial problems and is going broke (maybe bankrupt) several years ago. He has an old Corvette and his friend (MAN B) offers to let him park/store the car at his house for an unspecified period of time. Finally the man (MAN A) goes to his friend's (MAN B) house to pick up the Corvette and his former friend (MAN B)says he can't have the car back that it now belongs to him unless he wants to pay $30,000. in storage fees! There was never any previous discussion of storage fees, there was nothing in writing because they were friends. (MAN A) still has the title to the car. How does he go about getting his car back? Can (MAN B) simply keep (MAN A's) car? I'm not sure if this is criminal law, property law, or exactly what it is if not theft of some sort.


Asked on 9/20/05, 2:35 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Ronald Aronds Law Office of Ronald Aronds, LLC

Re: Automobile left with friend

What you describe is a form of theft called "conversion". The correct course of aciton is to notify the police that this car was in effect stolen for the reasons you described, and then have them bring criminal charges against the person who won't give the car back.

Sincerely yours, -Ronald Aronds, Esq.-

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Answered on 9/21/05, 11:03 am


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