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Re: This may be a dumb question, but......

Posted by Mikael on Thu Feb 14, 2002 12:22:16 PM

In reply top This may be a dumb question, but...... posted by Karen on Wed Feb 13, 2002 05:59:42 PM

Hi Karen,

Well, in Sweden you can under certain circumstances (which I'm not knowledgable in) claim the right to a wreck in a lake, sea, river etc. If you locate a wreck, and then go to the police and file a claim, it will be processed according to some law and then you may or may not be awarded the legal rights to a wreck. I guess it is about the salvaging rights which was developed first for shipping.

I don't know to what extent the previous owner can claim the right to "buy back" the wreck. But I guess that if a wreck is of certain historical value or national interest the state would take over the ownership, but the person who found it would get some sort of finders fee. Of course you wouldn't be able to lay claim to the wreck of a JAS 39 gripen fighter the day after it crashes...

So it's not like the US Navy that claim ownership on everything that they sometime have payed for. You also have to have control of the things that you claim to be yours, if you don't have control of it, then the ownership can be ceded legally to another person.

This is quite complicated, and my legal training in this field is rather limited. But I think this is the logic behind the possibility of claiming the recovery rights to a wreck in sweden.

May be someone else can add something?
/Mikael

: How do you get legal recovery rights to a Military Aircraf
: t? I would think there would be a monsterous amount of red
: tape involved? Just very curious....
: Karen

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