Cash Under The Floor Boards

[Bazile]

You buy a house and some, say 10 years later you happen to lift a floorboard an find a bag of cash .

Who legally would own it ?

[aelmpvw]

i'm assuming this was in the USA, don't know the legal ramifications in the uk

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2008751/this-family-just-found-a-hidden-suitcase-under-the-floorboards-when-they-were-doing-up-their-old-house-and-youll-never-believe-what-was-inside/

[Old_Geezer]

Hiw much did you get Baz ?

[Old_Geezer]

HOW
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[albaqwerty]

OG, you have been having great fun with your keyboard recently !

Surely, it would still belong to the person/people who put it there unless it was stolen dosh?

[Bazile]

OG - I wish
Purely hypothetical

[Old_Geezer]

You don't see the error every other word I do catch and correct. Soul destroying.

[Bazile]

So , when you buy the house - don't you buy the bricks and mortar and it's contents ( known or unknown)?

[Old_Geezer]

http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/28/when-are-you-legally-allowed-to-keep-money-you-find-on-the-floor-6479579/

[albaqwerty]

OG, just type and ignore weird letters.
No consolation, but it could be worse.

Baz, now, if you had bought a house and 10 years later you were digging up back garden and found a corpse...?

[Bazile]

Is that the same scenario as my example though ?

Reading that article - i think i would just not touch it, but leave the cash where i saw it

[Bazile]

the above was in respect to OG'S link

[Bazile]

alba
In your example , i would call in CSI

[albaqwerty]

Baz, would you like Spath and I to investigate beneath your floorboards?

we promise to tell you if we find nothing.

[Bazile]

Dare i ask , who is spath ?

[albaqwerty]

spathyphyllum (probably not correctly spelled, so apologies for that) a few posts up ^^^

[Hopkirk]

It's mine.

Give me your address and I will fetch it very quickly.

[tamborine]

Everything left in the property you purchase is yours. DIL is bringing a metal detector as a clairvoyant said theres gold in our well ;)