What is the "property?" The physical paper? The information? What if it was photocopied? Emailed? If the "information" is the property, what is the value of that? $0.01? $1,000,000?
Do you have a statute you can refer us to?
I mean, I'm just an uneducated ole' Hoosier, born and reared in the cornfields of Indiana, but in my law learnin', we were told in this great country that all laws had to be written down and that you couldn't just be sent to jail 'cause someone says you done wrong. Nope, you had the right, the God Given right some would say, to see what that law was that you broke, to read it, right there on the page to see what you could and couldn't do. As my granddad always said, a man has a right to see what he done that was wrong if the gummint gonna lock him up in the slammer. At least that's how I was raised.