Crazy lawyers!

[Jeff Matthews]

Part of rebuilding New
Orleans caused residents often to be challenged with the task of tracing home
titles 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 FHA on behalf of a
client: You have to love this lawyer...

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. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer
three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he
received the following reply.

(Actual reply from FHA):
"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 will be necessary to
clear the title back to its origin."

Annoyed, the lawyer
responded as follows:

(Actual response): "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 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. Now, may we have our loan?" The loan was
immediately approved!

[Tom Adams]

Absolutely brilliant!!!! Now this is the kind of leadership and sense of humor we need in Washington!! I love it!! LOL

Hi-jack mode => ON

The other night the wife sees this ad on the History Channel for an upcoming episide about what would happen if Washington, DC was the target of a major nuclear strike. She said, "Wow Tom.....can you imagine what would happen??" I said I absolutely knew what would happen the days following. It would be the largest party the country had ever seen for only a nuclear strike could get all those *%&$# outta office. A modern day indepence day! []

Hi-jack mode => OFF

Tom

[Arky]

Spectacularly amazing. I just sent that to all my lawyer buds.

[Boxx]

Thanks... made my day...

[sputnik]

I love the humor but that joke is older than me. []

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