Posted on 12/11/2023 7:39:10 AM PST by lowbridge
A man in the U.K., who took over a retiree’s empty home in London and gained legal ownership of it under a "quirky" ancient Roman law, has sold the property for a profit, local media reports.
A British construction worker identified as Keith Best spotted an empty three-bedroom, semi-detached home in London’s Newbury Park back in 1997 while working a construction job nearby, according to Express. Best began renovating the property and ultimately moved his family into the home in 2012.
The house, however, belonged to retiree Colin Curtis, who lived on the property with his mother until the late 1990s, when he moved out. Curtis inherited the property, but under what has been described as a "quirky" ancient Roman law that allows "someone in possession of a good without title to become the lawful proprietor if the original owner didn't show up after some time," Best became the home’s legal owner, the Guardian previously reported.
Best had filed an application for adverse possession about a decade ago in order to legally obtain the property. The Chief Land Registrar initially denied the application following a law that criminalized squatting, but the ruling was overturned by the High Court in 2014 when a judge ruled the Registrar's decision was "founded on an error of law," the Daily Mail reported.
The judge ruled that previous laws approached squatting issues as civil matters, and despite the judge finding Curtis committed criminal trespass, he was granted ownership of the home. The judge found that at least 10 years had passed "without effective action by the owner" to take control of the property.
"This judgement recognises that making residential squatting a criminal offence was not intended to impact on the law of adverse possession, which is an old and quirky law,"
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There are some lucky people with “land grant” property thay OWN it.
No big deal!
The U.S. is being taken over by MIV (Migrant Invader Vermin) squatters and no one is raising a finger to stop it...
“The purpose of it however is to put land to maximum economic productive use.”
For the commie good, er, I mean, the common good.
If you have an owner who is absent, who just goes away and leaves a property to fall into rack and ruin, it is better that somebody put that property to productive use.
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How about my bank account, that I have left for, say, 10 years?
Can someone claim they can put it to better productive use, and take it?
After a certain amount of time, banks do exactly that. That caused a lot of problems with descendants of Jews murdered in the Holocaust if you remember. If the bank doesn’t claim it, then the government does. Look up “escheatment”.
Based on an ancient Roman law? Are they going to start crucifying Christians in England now?
Exactly. The concept of private property was killed off decades ago by our feckless, gullible ancestors who listened to government ‘experts’.
“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
Imported violent Muslims own the UK now.
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