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- From gostl@argoscomp.com Mon Jan 18 00:43:13 1999
- Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
- From: gostl@argoscomp.com (Jack Gostl)
- Subject: Lawyer joke
- Keywords: chuckle, heard it
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- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:30:00 PST
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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. 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 letter):
-
- "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 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 letter):
-
- "Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I note
- that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 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 U. S. 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 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 then reigning
- monarch, Isabella. The good queen, being a pious woman and careful about
- titles, almost as much as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the
- blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to fund Columbus'
- expedition. Now the Pope, as I'm sure you 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 He also made that
- part of the world called Louisiana. He, therefore, would be the owner of
- origin. I hope ... you find His original claim to be satisfactory.
-
- Now, may we have our ... loan?"
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