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