Who Owns buried treasure?

[Samanthy]

There is also the option of taking it to a bank as collateral for a loan....
As for the casa de cambio I specified the plural.....never make more than one trip to one in that town.

And there is no need to do all of the gold at once!

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Diving for Pleasure and Treasure - Grab it through Amazon!

[Honest Samuel]

My Personal Opinion, If it's Old enough that The Person who Buried it is dead or Can't be found.
And No one in the Family seems to Know or seems to Care about it enough,
To Have Legal Papers Advertising It's Lost or There. or They are not trying to Find it.


it's finders keepers..

Now, that is a problem, Always get permission from the land owner in writing and give them a fair share and pay state and federal income taxes or off to jail you may go.

 

[Hawkwood]

The law says "Finders Keepers" (basically). Here is a curve ball for you:

Treasure Trove Law

Say you find a stack of gold bars with Jesuit Markings. Also sacks of gold and silver coins.

TT Law says the same thing. Finders Keepers. Finder typically takes precedent over the landowner. Finder takes precedent over every other entity.....................unless the entity that hid the treasure is still alive.

The Jesuits would likely sue the finder because the "entity" known as The Order of Jesus (Jesuits) was who hid the treasure from the Spanish in about 1765, and the Jesuits are still an active Order of the Catholic Church.

Do you or the Jesuits get the treasure?

Mike

Mike......
Yes the Jesuits do exist.
But, just for the sake of arguement, you find something you are sure is a Jesuit trove on US Forestry Land....You try your best to contact the Jesuit Western Provencial and they won't talk to you....
Then what??