FW- Gotta love this lawyer... Thanks Ramey Sonny Hoskins!

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Sam

----- Original Message -----

From: ramey hoskins

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 17:53

Subject: Fw: Gotta love this lawyer

















You are gonna like this one!





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 damn loan?"



The loan was immediately approved.



(These are the same geniuses charged with the Government mortgage

bailout.)