Minor point - I didn't exactly leave it behind. It was with all the other stuff I was taking with me from that room. I asked her to leave my stuff alone and I would take care of it. As soon as I had a place available I came back for it and it was missing. She didn't "lend it to a friend", she had a friend take it away and hide it to keep it away from me because that was one more vindictive little jab she could get in. As far as the possession is 9/10 of the law thing, I can suggest a few bodily orifices you can insert that logic in (sorry, not personal, I've just always hated that line). Right is right and wrong is wrong. I knew, she knew, the friend knew, and everyone else knew that it was my personal property and she had no right to do anything at all with it other than leave it exactly where it was.