Leviticus 6:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

In any of all these that a man doeth— Houbigant renders this, in any one of these things wherein men are used to offend: in which he follows the Vulgate, and other versions, as well as the interpretation of Grotius. It was not peculiar to the Hebrew law, to account that man a thief, who detained any thing from the true owner that he had found. We are told of the Dyrbaans, who inhabited that tract which extends from Bactria to India, and were celebrated for justice among their neighbours, that in case they found any gold or silver, clothes, or any thing else, upon the road, they would by no means touch it. The inhabitants of Biblos, in the neighbourhood of Judea, had the same law. To the same purpose was that law of Solon, take not up what ye have not laid down; with which the decision of the Roman lawyers also agreed: and the case was the same with our Saxon ancestors in the days of Alfred. However, it is unquestionably lawful to use as our own what we have found, after all due inquiry has been made to discover the owner.