Abandoned Sheep

Présentation

The Abandoned Shipwrecks Act is a piece of United States legislation passed into law in 1988. The Act was a neutral law to transfer ownership of applicable shipwrecks in U.S. state waters from the federal government to the state where the shipwreck was located. The drafter of the legislation was Dr. Anne Giesecke. The legislation is brief, by design, and aims to resolve a jurisdictional conflict between the Federal Court sitting in Admiralty and state governments managing state land, particularly the excavation of state land.