Spain proposes to leave $4B treasure on Caribbean seafloor to avoid conflict with Colombia

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9. After you posted, i added the comment about the investors

Just to point out to you and anyone else reading this thread, that my comment you made a comment on has changed since you made your comment.

As to the three mile limit, a lot of old laws reflected the technology of the time period and much of it survived changed in technology and society. The classic case was that the land owned by a wife came under the control of her husband. The reason for that rule was as her husband he had to perform any MILITARY duty tied in with owning the land. Since ownership of land and military duty were tied together, someone had to perform that military duty, and to pay for the equipment to do that duty the person who had to perform that duty obtained complete control of that land. Revenue from the land went to pay for the armor, weapons and horses needed by such knights. Thus that a husband obtain complete control over his wife's property made perfect sense in 1100. Come the 1400s, the Kings of England, ignoring the Magna Carta (Which Forbade the switching of Military duty for taxes unless the taxed person agreed), decided it preferred mercenaries, transformed such military service to taxes. Women can pay taxes as while as men, thus the REASON for a husband's control of his wife's land disappeared. The reason for the rule had disappeared, but the rule itself survived another 400 years.

Just another example of technology and culture changing, but the law taking centuries to adjust to the change.