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I wouldn't go public either. Somebody before them owned that property and I wonder if old relatives could give you troubles.
by ereckers 13y ago
I wouldn't go public either. Somebody before them owned that property and I wonder if old relatives could give you troubles.
- theandrewbailey 13y agoIf it was found on your land, and the deed to that land has been in your name for several years, they wouldn't have legit claim.
- giarc 13y agoI own my house but the government keeps mineral and mining rights. Gold's a mineral right?
- theandrewbailey 13y agoDepends on where you live. Oftentimes, mineral rights belong to the landowner. They can be sold or leased. I doubt that buried coinage/treasure would be considered a mineral.* *I'm not a lawyer.
- pavel_lishin 13y agoThey could still try to make a claim, and you'd presumably still have to hire a lawyer and go to court, which would be no fun at all.
- simlevesque 13y agoWhat about Israel.
- booruguru 13y agoI read story a while back about a plumber who found a box filled with thousands of dollars...behind a wall after he knocked a hole in it. The owner of the house offered him 10% as a finder's fee, but he demanded more and ultimately sued her. The story of the law suit led to the children of the previous home owners filing their own law suit claiming they were entitled to the money...and they won everything. The woman and the plumber received nothing.
- avalaunch 13y agohttp://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/12/whatever_happened_to_the_fight.html http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/12/whatever_happened_to...
- theandrewbailey 13y agoI figured that some crazy shit like that would have happened somewhere. Doesn't surprise me that it was fellow Buckeyes.
- stan_rogers 13y agoDepends where. This is treasure trove, (the discovery, or trover of treasure cache, deliberately hidden goods that can be classified as treasure, especially gold/silver) and the laws around that are a bit of a mess in a lot of places (particularly in the US, where most states opted to receive common law and there are several contradictory precedents).