Civil liability for dealing with meteorite stones

Abstract

This study aimed to shed light on the extent to which civil liability is perceived when dealing with meteorite stones in Jordanian legislation, whether by sale, purchase, gift, inheritance, or any other form of dealing. The subject of the study was addressed by answering the questions that represent the research problem.

The researcher divided the study into two sections, , in the first section, he addressed the nature of responsibility for dealing with meteorites, by clarifying the nature of contractual and tortious liability resulting from dealing with meteorites. The second section reviewed the adequacy of general rules regarding objective liability, by clarifying the concept of objective liability and envisioning its application to the act of dealing with meteorites.

In the end, the researcher reached many results, the most prominent of which was that Jordanian legislation did not keep pace with the development taking place in the field of scientific and economic benefit from meteorites. The researcher recommended many recommendations, the most important of which was the need for the Jordanian legislator to intervene, to enact special legislation dealing with meteorites, and to approve a legal system that determines who is responsible. Regarding the acts of buying, selling, trading, storing, exporting abroad, or smuggling meteorites, and regulating how to obtain a license from the relevant government agencies to deal with these stones, which represent mineral wealth and important economic value.