John F. Walter found no evidence the museum knew it was looted art when it took possession in 1993
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So, no concept of “receiving stolen property” here?
Likewise, a family that lost it due to the gravest of duress has no rights to it either.
I feel bad for the museum that (there is no evidence showing) knew it was looted, but it certainly didn’t belong to them before this. Take up with those who peddled it.
What about all these people who lose their rights to plunder shipwrecks and discovered riches, because courts rule that there are historical and legacy rights to account for? Shouldn’t the family history of the item pre-empt some museum’s commercial curator interest?
[[Likewise, a family that lost it due to the gravest of duress has no rights to it either.]]
Huh? So a woman who loses a child to kidnapping loses all rights to her child?
Um, what about that corrupt fmr gov of NJ who destroyed a financial company?
The receiver that got the job of sorting it out treated numbered pieces of precious metals as common assets to be divvied up among those that got shafted instead of returning the identifiable property to the registered owners.