Re: [DL] Money: How much is too much?

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> > They take the property of people they capture or incapacitate?  That's
> > called theft.  If they take something by force, that's called robbery.
> > Legally, even the dead men still have estates.
>
> But .
>
> I know in the good old days, it was common practice for the local law and
the
> undertaker to take whatever was of value from an unclaimed dead body, and
> divide it up as fees for services and burial.  It was so common that it
> wasn't even hidden.  A man had $1.43 on him, then it cost $1.43 to bury
the
> body.  If there were family in town, then all due respect was duly paid.
But
> if he was a no-account drifter, it was fair pickings.

Yes, but there's a difference between the undertaker looting and the people
whoe killed the guy looting (unless, of course, they're one and the same
:) ).

Nick "resting in peace" Zachariasen