One's neighbors' mangoes: to eat or not to eat?

A family has a neighbor with a huge mango tree. Branches of the mango tree hang over the fence and sometimes mangoes fall into our friends' yard. Now, they really love mangoes but never eat the ones that fall from that tree because they do not know if it is permissible for them to do so; according to state law, that part of the mango tree over our friends' property belongs to them. So -- according to the Shari'ah -- can they or should they not eat the mangoes? It's mango season right now, so for mango-lovers, it is very tempting...

Posted By: Kings Lynn Canary, Jan 5, 14:33:38