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danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: billf on December 14, 2007, 06:50:33 pm ---
What??? That's insane! She owns the house for crying out loud! Its hers. Under your reasoning, any long lost treasures found anywhere should be given to charity?? What about the people who dive for treasure on sunken pirate ships? What about King Tuts tomb?
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not a good example. normally, divers are NOT allowed to take items from historical sunken vessels. and even now the egyptian government is trying to recover all the treasures pilfered from there over the centuries, including artifacts in the british museum.
i agree that this money is hers by virtue of being on her property. like recovering someones stolen wallet, you can hope for a reward but not expect it and not ---smurfette--- about it if you don't get one...
patrickl:
Yeah, even if something was lost it can still be owned by someone. I've always been wondering about Spain resisting the recovery of gold coins from a sunken ship.
Guardian: Spain forces treasure ship into port in battle over fortune in pieces of eight
Spain claims the coins might have come from a sunken ship in Spanish waters or from a Spanish galleon that sank in international waters. In both cases Spain claims they are the rightful owner of the coins.
BMW Z1:
--- Quote from: billf on December 14, 2007, 08:29:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on December 14, 2007, 07:21:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: billf on December 14, 2007, 06:50:33 pm ---What??? That's insane! She owns the house for crying out loud! Its hers. Under your reasoning, any long lost treasures found anywhere should be given to charity?? What about the people who dive for treasure on sunken pirate ships? What about King Tuts tomb?
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They were friends. So was this a job he was doing or a favor.
If you volunteer to clean up a private lot and you find a 20 dollar bill, is it yours or the lot owners?
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It doesn't say they were friends, it said they were classmates. I think if this was a favor it would have been mentioned in the article. Finding a $20 bill is a whole lot different than finding the amount that was found in the situation. But in your question, yes the $20 bill is the lot owners.
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Well lets hope she dosnt find a dead body under the floor boards then!
billf:
--- Quote from: BMW Z1 on December 15, 2007, 10:00:28 am ---
--- Quote from: billf on December 14, 2007, 08:29:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on December 14, 2007, 07:21:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: billf on December 14, 2007, 06:50:33 pm ---What??? That's insane! She owns the house for crying out loud! Its hers. Under your reasoning, any long lost treasures found anywhere should be given to charity?? What about the people who dive for treasure on sunken pirate ships? What about King Tuts tomb?
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They were friends. So was this a job he was doing or a favor.
If you volunteer to clean up a private lot and you find a 20 dollar bill, is it yours or the lot owners?
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It doesn't say they were friends, it said they were classmates. I think if this was a favor it would have been mentioned in the article. Finding a $20 bill is a whole lot different than finding the amount that was found in the situation. But in your question, yes the $20 bill is the lot owners.
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Well lets hope she dosnt find a dead body under the floor boards then!
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Well, then she would be the owner of that too! ;D
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: patrickl on December 15, 2007, 07:59:46 am ---Spain claims the coins might have come from a sunken ship in Spanish waters or from a Spanish galleon that sank in international waters. In both cases Spain claims they are the rightful owner of the coins.
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There are laws about things in international waters for extreme lengths of time. Ownership then often does become a finder's ownership, or in some cases, it goes to whomever has the salvage rights to that area. IIRC, salvage claims are fairly short term, then they go back to nonownership.
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