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Legally, if the money was in the house when he bought it, he "bought" the money, too...


Not necessarily. Depends on a lot of state case law (i.e., trivia).

Here I think that anything "affixed" to the "visible and apparent" structures conveys and otherwise not, unless the contract mentions it. In some cases "affixed" can mean "plugged into an electric outlet" but in others that's not enough. I think shrubbery in considered "affixed" to the dirt that is part of the foundation ... you get the point.

I'm pretty sure bags of money in the attic would not automatically convey here. Whether it was abandoned or not is another issue. And I think some states don't allow finders to keep the money anyway, on the theory if they did no one would ever try to contact the rightful owner?
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