Sentence examples for unclaimed goods from inspiring English sources

Every Thursday the government releases a list of people who have died without any known heirs – what is referred to as Bona Vacantia – Latin for "unclaimed goods".

The San Francisco Police Department, for example, takes in about 3,000 items a month, and unclaimed goods are eventually sold off.

Unclaimed goods for sale include jewelry, electronics (yes, even iPads, etc)., clothing, adventure gear and oddities such as moose antlers, a full suit of armor, a platinum Rolex, a camera from a space shuttle and a coffin.

"Any kind of connection with the federal government gives it some kind of official stamp," says Mike Fleming, spokesman in Los Angeles for the U.S. Customs Service, which is often mentioned in auction ads so people will think it's one of the service's own auctions of unclaimed goods.

Since there are so many causes in KULA's database, it's easy to find a few that you really care about, and then you're motivated to put your unclaimed rewards to good use.

Any goods still unclaimed are donated or thrown away.

Police or sales or auctions of unclaimed stolen or lost goods can sometimes net cheap instruments.

It was inspired to begin the search by the government, which had highlighted the issue of dormant accounts and plans to use unclaimed money to fund good causes.

You wouldn't believe the stolen goods that go unclaimed at police departments.

That's good money lying unclaimed in these fresh hard times and the states, looking for a cut, argue that they have the means to track down bondholding taxpayers and ease their pain.

Scouring through the lists of unclaimed players is like trying to find good produce at a Walmart Neighborhood Market.