[If] one saw an acquirable object and fell upon it, and another came and seized it, the one who seized it acquired it.  [If] one saw people running after an acquirable object —- after a lame deer [or] after young birds that cannot [yet] fly —- and he said: “My field has acquired [it] for me,” it has [indeed] acquired [it] for him.  [If] the deer was running normally or if the young birds were flying, and he said: “My field has acquired [it] for me,” [it is as though] he said nothing.

The finding of one’s minor son or daughter, the finding of one’s gentile slave —- male or female —- [and] the finding of one’s wife belong to him.  The finding of one’s son or daughter who is of age, the finding of one’s Jewish bondman or bond-woman, the finding of one’s wife whom he divorced —- although he has not [yet] paid her kesubah —- belong to them.