Are lunar deeds legitimate? (ie. 1 acre of moon)?

Question

Hi there,

I've seen some companies selling lunar deeds. Ie. you can own 1 acre of the moon for a low price. Is this for real? Can a person really be entitled to an Acre of the moon? Who bought / owns the moon to begin with?

If it is for real, what are reputable companies to buy from?

thanks,

Answer 1

No deed could possibly be legal as no one owns the moon, and therefore has no right to sell any part of the moon.

Answer 2

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Are lunar deeds legitimate? (ie. 1 acre of moon)?
Hi there,

I've seen some companies selling lunar deeds. Ie. you can own 1 acre of the moon for a low price. Is this for real? Can a person really be entitled to an Acre of the moon? Who bought / owns the moon to begin with?

If it is for real, what are reputable companies to buy...

Answer 3

Lunar Embassy

Answer 4

There is a 1979 UN treaty that states the Moon shall be developed for the good of humanity. Private ownership is inconsistent with that aim.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moon_Treaty

However an organisation calling itself the lunar registry has convinced itself that private ownership is compatible with the treaty and is selling land, claiming it is legal to do so, but no more than 2% of the lunar surface, will be sold, it promises.

I find that claim highly dubious. As you say, it isn't theirs to sell. I am reminded of the Native Americans, approached by white settlers, who wanted to give them a few beads, mirrors and trinkets to sell them some land (Manhattan Island comes to mind) who simply could not relate to the idea of land being owned, land is for everybody, they argued. you might as well try and sell the air we breathe ... so they took the trinkets and found themselves barred from their own land and moved onto reservations.

This is not a road we want to go down again.

Answer 5

the Lunar Embassy itself points out, the Lunar Deeds are "novelty gifts"38. Their legal classification as novelty items means that these are to be used animus jocandi, i.e for fun only. It is not illegal to sell or to possess novelty items; it is illegal though to misuse them outwith the "novelty use only" scope. Other companies sell items such as one-million-dollar bills, or camouflage passports from inexisting countries, or "Area 51" license plates that, as long as they are commercialised and used as "novelty gifts", do not upset the authorities. Even in the case of Juergens, if, by any chance - however remote may be - Frederick the Great gave the Moon to his ancestor, this must have been made animus jocandi.

Answer 6

no

There is one company in USA that claims it owns the Moon because some clerk in a San Francisco Lands office let them file a writ of ownership.

And all the other ones are even worst.

Answer 7

definitely not. there's a treaty that says no one can own any piece of the moon.

Answer 8

No