A LEGAL DILEMMA.
♦; A knotty legal point had to be de-~ cided by the Tribunal of Issondurf (Indre) a few days back. A large aerolite fell in a field in which a peasant was at work. The man dug it out of the ground, for it was buried two' feet deep, and sold it to the local museum for 2'50 francs. The proprietor of the field, who resides in Paris, hearing of this piece of goocb fortune, claimed the money, and the tribunal wits now calle'd on to decide the respective rights of the parties. As no precedents existed, the Judges had to proceed by analogy, and the case assimilated to that of alluvial soil brought by arr inundation. If the" advocates did not bring forward the example of the Deluge, one at least, who'appeared for the landlord, went asfar back as the " Institutes of Jitstinian," quoting the clwpter, "TpThesauris, Book, IX." Let no one steal the wealth buried in another man's field." The tribunal could not of course resist such authority and such a display of learning, and sentenced the' peasant to give up the 250 tiuuca and* pay the costs.
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Kumara Times, Issue 938, 2 October 1879, Page 2
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