Re: Not always joking, it seems

In article <atjvj.11073$XI.2037@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Jette <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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)

You are saying that you got rid of the feudal system in the thirteenth 
century? I believe the earliest meeting for the Scottish parliament of 
which we have reliable record was in 1235.

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