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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Protestant caucasians
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.200529.2549@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec22.181502.17753@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:05:29 GMT
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- wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne) writes:
- : >In article <1992Dec19.024607.26404@colorado.edu>, bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles) writes
- : >>
- : >> Many subdivisions in the United States have covenants that prohibit the
- : >> sale of houses to anyone except Protestant caucasians. If you tried to
- : >> back out of a sales contract based on that "legally binding" convenant you
- : >> will find yourself in an incredible amount of legal trouble.
- : >
- : >Now, is this true? (Not John De Armond, but the covenants.)
- : >
- : Yup. I got a chance to see the original deed covenants covering the land my
- : parents house is on when they paid off their mortgage. Their subdivision was
- : constructed in 1948 - 1949, and the covenants attached to their deed state
- : that by purchasing their house they agree not to resell to "Negroes, Jews,
- : or members of the Roman Catholic faith".
-
- However, the covenant has to be "legally binding". Since racial and religious
- descrimination has been banned by the federal government - the preemption
- clause of the Constitution makes such covenants invalid and unenforceable.
-
- So, even if such clauses exist in deeds, they are void.
-
- Bill
-