If the owner of such property shall not have appeared within thirty days after such copy has been so posted, and the valuation thereof be under $15, or if such valuation be as much as $15, and the owner shall not have appeared after such certificate has been published as aforesaid, and also three times in some newspaper such as is mentioned in section one of this article, it shall belong in either case to the owner of the land on which it was so taken, if an estray, or to the person taking it up, in the case of a boat or vessel.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 34. Estrays, Drift and Derelict Property
Article 1. Estrays and Drift Property
§34-1-1. Taking Up Estray or Boat
§34-1-2. Recordation and Posting of Certificate
§34-1-3. Effect of Failure of Owner to Claim
§34-1-5. Liability for Death or Loss
§34-1-6. Drift Property -- Rights of Person Taking Up
§34-1-7. Same -- Rights of Owner
§34-1-9. Liability for False Claim; Acts Intended to Hinder or Delay Owner in Reclaiming Property
§34-1-11. Taking Up Timber Adrift in Certain Rivers; Compensation; Sale