Re: Not always joking, it seems

David Friedman wrote:
> In article <62fvj.10911$XI.9048@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>>> Colette Reap <colette@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> The actual percentage of home ownership in the UK is about 70%.
>>> I thought instead of land ownership they mostly had 99-year leases.
>> Only really in England.  Very few counties in Scotland had residential 
>> leases. (in fact residential leases tend only to show up in one county 
>> - and the term of the lease is usually 999 years) I did get one 
>> recently that had as its term "one million years from Whitsunday 1898".
>>
>> I'm not convinced that we'll be using the same methods of land 
>> registry in a million years ;-)
> 
> Not in England, perhaps, but surely in Scotland.
> 


Phhht - it only took us a few hundred years to get rid of the Feudal 
system  :-P

(actually, once we got our own parliament, it only took a couple of 
years - that was one of the first bills passed)(and would have taken 
another 10 years if we'd still been waiting for Westminster to get 
their fingers out)


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Jette Goldie
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