{"id":743,"date":"2009-09-16T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=743"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:29","slug":"personal-property-who-own-coins-that-might-have-been-stolen-from-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2009\/09\/16\/personal-property-who-own-coins-that-might-have-been-stolen-from-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal property\u2013who own coins that might have been stolen from the government?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rare coins, possibly stolen: does the current possessor have the burden of showing that they were obtained legally or does\u00a0 the prior owner (the United States) have the burden of showing that they were stolen? A court rules that possession, indeed, is 9\/10 of the law. \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/16\/us\/16coin.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;adxnnlx=1253110098-a22Twqqctd0xl9nQ80T4YA\" target=\"_blank\">read article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/personal-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Personal Property<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare coins, possibly stolen: does the current possessor have the burden of showing that they were obtained legally or does\u00a0 the prior owner (the United States) have the burden of showing that they were stolen? A court rules that possession, indeed, is 9\/10 of the law. \u00a0read article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-property"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}