Unclaimed

Brethren! the European world to-day is fighting and scrambling over what it calls the unclaimed corners of the world; looking upon all lands that are uncivilised by Western civilisation either as markets, or as parts of their empire. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)

He has $15 million in unclaimed funds and will give me a third of it if I send him the number of my checking account so he can deposit the money in my name. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Officials said the state will get $6.1 million more in unclaimed money in the first year of the change. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Well, no, since you ask AP has not produced him or any of the other “police officers”, who remain unclaimed by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. ❋ Helen (2006)

Capital Times of Jan. 31, 2006: When cremains remain unclaimed ❋ Unknown (2006)

About two-thirds of the money was described as unclaimed proceeds from more than 20,000 sheriff sales over the last 12 years, when properties were sold for larger amounts than their past-due mortgages, unpaid taxes, and utilities. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Since starting my test of The Secret, I seem to be getting more e-mail from con artists peddling variations on the famous Nigerian letter-fraud scam, though it’s coming from Burkina Faso: Somebody tells you that you can have millions of dollars in unclaimed funds if you provide your own bank account number so the cash can be deposited. ❋ Unknown (2007)

According to a company called the unclaimed baggage center, a very small amount of luggage is truly lost. ❋ Unknown (2009)

State governments, aided by corporate middlemen, are collecting billions of dollars a year from Americans by enforcing obscure laws to seize money from forgotten bank accounts and other so-called unclaimed property. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Biotech firm Biogen Idec Inc. and children's-shoe maker Stride Rite Corp. sued Massachusetts for classifying as unclaimed property money that one business owes another. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As America neared the twentieth century, Oklahoma Territory was the last great frontier of unclaimed lands—unclaimed, that is, by white settlers. ❋ Nancy Mathis (2007)

This was how the so-called unclaimed dividends ballooned from 7 billion in 2004 to nearly triple the amount today. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Money lying in these accounts are classified as unclaimed deposits if no one comes forward to claim ownership for at least 10 years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dear Sandy: It's called unclaimed property: Each year, billions of dollars belonging to millions of Americans (dead and alive) goes unclaimed when banks, companies and government agencies lose track of the rightful owner. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And the Darien was one of the few areas left 'unclaimed' by the Europeans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Premier Exhibitions says that the "unclaimed" bodies on display were legally obtained from Dalian Medical University. ❋ Unknown (2008)