Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> --- Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> >
> > > CAIRO - An Egyptian lawyer said on Wednesday he was planning to sue
> > > the world's Jews for "plundering" gold during the Exodus from
> > > Pharaonic Egypt thousands of years ago, based on information in the
> > > Bible.
> >
> > Umm - a couple of obvious things - you can't sue a race of people, you
> > have to bring your suit against a specific entity - be it a government,
> > corporation, association, individual or any combination of the above. I
> > mean, who is going to defend, or pay? The first jewish person the
> > process server runs into on the day?
> >
> > Secondly, I think that a statute of limitations applies on simple
> > plundering pretty much everywhere - only capital crimes are ever
> > excluded, and the exclusions vary too much to be useful.
> >
> > Thirdly, none of the people who are being asked to answer for this crime
> > actually committed this crime. The accused have been dead for thousands
> > of years. Even if stupendous discoveries of incontrovertible evidence
> > was suddenly discovered, it's not going to point at anyone around today...
>
> What if your gradfather, knowing that he and my grandfather are both near
> death, were to rob my grandfather buy gold with the money and put it into an
> offshore bank under your name. Further more he writes in his journal that he
> did this. No one is around any more who was originaly involved.
>
> Now what if it was your great grandfather and the only way you were to
> recover it was that he made sure you (who was not yet born) got the journal,
> so you would know where to get your gold.
>
> Now what if it was his father, or his father before him?
>
> Where does one draw the line?
Well, can we say that the *maximum* for statute of limitations is 1000
years? 2000? 3000? What figure would you set? If it's 1000 years,
then clearly in *this* case, the statute of limitations has been passed.
Julia
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