§34-2-4. Recovery of Money Paid Into State Treasury Under This Article
After any such decree for the payment of such residuum of a decedent's estate, or the proceeds of the sale of any such derelict property or property having no rightful owner, any person who had not asserted a claim before the sale or decree, who may be entitled to such residuum or derelict or other […]
§34-2-1. Method of Recovery of Unclaimed Residuum and Derelict Property
The residuum of a decedent's estate, belonging to the state, and any property derelict, or having no rightful owner, may be recovered from any person in possession thereof, by a bill in equity in the name of the state.
§34-2-2. Notice of Suit
When any such suit as is mentioned in the preceding section is instituted, the court shall cause a publication to be made setting forth the nature of the claim, the name and nativity (when known) of the deceased person, or of the former owner of the property, if known, as the case may be, and […]
§34-2-3. Decree of Title to State
If, in such a suit as is mentioned in section one of this article, no person appears to show title in himself the court shall decree the residuum or other property to the state, and enforce the collection thereof, or of the proceeds of the sale of such property. Any real property so decreed to […]
§34-1-6. Drift Property — Rights of Person Taking Up
When any property, not mentioned in section one of this article, is drifted on any waters of this state, and taken up by any person, or deposited and left on the lands of any person, other than the owner of such property, the person taking it up, or the owner of such land, shall, as […]
§34-1-7. Same — Rights of Owner
The owner of such property, after he shall have paid to the person taking it up, or to the owner of such land, a just compensation for any proper care, labor, or expense bestowed, done, or incurred by him about such property, but not before, may enter upon such land for the purpose, and, doing […]
§34-1-8. Same — Sale or Use
If the owner of such property as is mentioned in section six of this article shall not, within three months from the time the same was so taken up or deposited, remove or demand from the person taking it up, or the owner of such land, such property, the person taking it up or the […]
§34-1-9. Liability for False Claim; Acts Intended to Hinder or Delay Owner in Reclaiming Property
If any person shall falsely or fraudulently procure a warrant to be issued by a justice, under section one of this chapter, for the appraisement of anything as an estray or drift property which is not such; or shall secrete any such estray or property, or alter or change the appearance thereof, or the marks […]
§34-1-10. Proof of Ownership
In any action, suit, prosecution or controversy about any property mentioned in this article, the person claiming to be the owner thereof must prove his ownership thereof, in order to sustain his claim to be such owner, as against the person taking up such property, or on whose land it was deposited.
§34-1-11. Taking Up Timber Adrift in Certain Rivers; Compensation; Sale
[Repealed.]