I hope you don't mind a Lawyer Story for New Orleans Residents

mdengraver

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Part of rebuilding New Orleans (after Katrina) often caused residents to be challenged with the task of tracing titles to their homes...back potentially hundreds of years. With a
community rich with history stretching back over two centuries, houses have been passed along through generations of family, sometimes making it quite difficult to establish ownership. Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on behalf of a client:
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A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client.. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as
collateral. It took the lawyer three months to track down the full title to the property, which dated back to 1803. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.
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"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you
> have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only
cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803.
Before final approval can be accorded, it ill be necessary to clear the title back to its origin.."
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Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:
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"Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France in 1803, the year of origin identified in our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was
obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain. The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea
> captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella. The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus 's expedition. Now, the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created of this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana . God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back to
> before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and the FHA.
> I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory.
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> Now, may we have our damn loan?"
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> The loan was immediately approved.
 
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Several lawyers were coming out of the courthouse here in Bradford County, PA, and one was telling a lawyer joke. When they had all had their laugh at the punch line, one of them asked, "How many lawyer jokes do you suppose there are?"
"Three", replied one of the others. "All the rest are true stories."

That lawyer is now our District Attorney.

Peace,
Francis
 

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