Finders Keepers?

by Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.B
Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate
watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au

On TV's Neighbours once a cache of banknotes was dug up from a vacant lot in Ramsay Street. In the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes play-archaeologists found rare dinosaur bones in their backyard.

In the real world people sometimes do discover long-forgotten money or valuable objects. Often lawyers then become involved to help determine who gets to keep this "buried treasure" because, unfortunately, the legal position is rarely so simple as "finders keepers...".

Continue reading "Finders Keepers?"