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Personal items included in office sale?

I was the sole employee of a small medical practice. I had brought 2 of my personal desktop computers to the office to replace the aging PC's there. My boss did not pay me anything for them; I simply did it as a courtesy. The computers still contained my personal documents and pictures. After I brought them to the office some practice management software (which, along with the tech support contract for that specific software, was purchased by my boss) was installed on them. The practice was recently sold. The contract says ''the equipment'' is included in the sale, but does not specifically list the computers as ''the equipment''. The medical office did have other ''equipment'' such as exam tables, etc. Prior to the sale I told the new buyer that I owned the PCs. I feel that since the computers were not my boss's property, they are not part of the sale and that they should be returned to me. I had kept other personal effects in the office, such as some extra clothing, toiletries, etc, and after the sale I was allowed to take those items from the office. I have invoices for the computers, showing that they were purchased by me. As a point of law, do those 2 computers still belong to me and how would I go about reclaiming them?

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