About 3 - 4 years ago, the Minister for Lands, who is responsible for all land titles registrations in QLD, OZ, sold the vacant block of land next to his home.
After the sale was settled, the new owner paid for an up to date property survey. To evereyone's astonishment, the Minister hadn't sold the vacant bloack of land at all - nup - he'd sold the property with his house on it!!
The courts upheld the sale - all paperwork regarding property identification and title deeds had been presented and handled in accordance with law, and the Minister had to move out.
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Ian
Ah, eminent domain, the system by whuch government steals, er, appropriates, er, uh, obtains land from those greedy, er, selfish, er, uh, civic awareness challenged among the population!
This should give Gov. Ahnold reason to wonder if it isn't too late to change his mind: Fresno businessman finds school erroneously built on his property:
A 10,000-square-foot mistake led contractors to build part of a new county-operated school on property owned by a Fresno businessman.
But instead of fixing the mistake, the county schools office plans to use a legal maneuver to force the landowner to sell the property.
Businessman Willard Eisner says he returned from a Hawaiian vacation last summer to a message on his answering machine. An official from the San Joaquin County Office of Education had some bad news: A construction team had accidentally built part of a new school on land Eisner owns and is leasing to a car dealership on East Hammer Lane near Tam O'Shanter Drive.
Eisner told the county office to move the building. But the county said it was too late, and now it plans to take the land by using eminent domain -- its power as a government agency to take the land and pay Eisner the market price.
And Mr. Eisner's reaction: Tear down the damn school!
A group of Valley landowners wants to demolish part of a new school that was accidentally built on their property, their attorney said Thursday.
The landowners, Willard Eisner of Fresno and his business partners, also have sued the county schools office, a construction company and the architect who designed the building, seeking damages for trespassing, fraud and conspiracy, attorney Roger Stewart said.
Eisner, who owns a 60,000-square-foot lot in the 800 block of East Hammer Lane, next week will ask a judge's permission to destroy a 10,000-square-foot portion of a school that the San Joaquin County Office of Education accidentally built on his property.
Just one question: Does the San Joaquin County Surveyor still have his job - and if so, why?
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