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From: "A.Appleyard" <A.APPLEYARD@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>
To: techdiver@terra.net
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 07:48:19 BST
Subject: Re: Lusitania decision

  todd@me*.co* (Todd Leonard) wrote (Subject: Lusitania decision
(long)):-

> ... the Queen's Bench found only that the Crown had no right to the property
> as a droit of Admiralty and that as such no one else had better right to the
> contents that Bemis and Macomber, as divers, recovered from the [*15] wreck.
> Essentially, it awarded them possessory title. ...

  The mines to dig fresh metal etc won't last for ever. There has to be a
limit to what the dead and uninterested vaguely-defined large corporations /
etc keep out of use of the living and active. This will end up likely with the
sea itself getting `possessory title' to it, by dissolving all metal parts
away to waste, unless SOMEONE salvages it all first.

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