From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!davidson
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: temporary insanity and money
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2136
Posted: Fri Jun 25 09:04:00 1982
Received: Mon Jun 28 06:02:39 1982
References: floyd.322

The story about the man who found a bag of money makes me curious:
What is the legality of claiming ownership over lost items?  If one
cannot simply possess them, is there any legal basis for insisting
on a reward for the service of finding them?

I have always found the legal definitions of sanity and insanity
amusing.  Generally, I think that people are as responsible for being
incapacitated by insanity as they are for anything else, although once
they've gotten into the habit of being insane (or of not compensating
for an organic mental problem), they may find it harder to act
responsibly.

Greg