Comments on: Repelling invaders – 2 http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:11:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: markm http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195845 markm Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:49:17 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195845 Back in the 1830's, it was discovered that the surveyors had made about a ten mile error in locating the border between Michigan and Ohio, so Toledo and the land west of it should have been in Michigan. After a whole lot of hot air, the border stayed right where it was. However, Congress sawed off an unsettled and barely inhabitable chunk of the territory that would become Wisconsin and gave it to Michigan in compensation. The Georgia/Tennessee border is at least as old as that one, and it's been another 170 years now. "Adverse possession" is the rule for such cases. Back in the 1830′s, it was discovered that the surveyors had made about a ten mile error in locating the border between Michigan and Ohio, so Toledo and the land west of it should have been in Michigan. After a whole lot of hot air, the border stayed right where it was. However, Congress sawed off an unsettled and barely inhabitable chunk of the territory that would become Wisconsin and gave it to Michigan in compensation.

The Georgia/Tennessee border is at least as old as that one, and it’s been another 170 years now. “Adverse possession” is the rule for such cases.

]]> By: wizardPC http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195840 wizardPC Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:25:55 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195840 Anyone up for some subterfuge? Anyone up for some subterfuge?

]]> By: straightarrow http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195830 straightarrow Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:08:28 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195830 Too damn late now. In any real property dispute there is a possibility of a thing called "rights of adverse possession". Basically it means if some entity has occupied and used real property openly and in conflict with the deeds or abstracts of the property, after a certain period of time that property becomes legally the property of the possessor, despite the claims of others who may have purchased or previously owned such property. The statute varies from state to state on the period of time necessary to establish the right of adverse possession, the longest period I am aware of being 15 years. Ergo, I am sure Tennessee has more than satisfied that requirement in the 200 (+or-) hundred years she has possessed and administered the real property in question. Georgia is just SOL. Too damn late now. In any real property dispute there is a possibility of a thing called “rights of adverse possession”. Basically it means if some entity has occupied and used real property openly and in conflict with the deeds or abstracts of the property, after a certain period of time that property becomes legally the property of the possessor, despite the claims of others who may have purchased or previously owned such property.

The statute varies from state to state on the period of time necessary to establish the right of adverse possession, the longest period I am aware of being 15 years. Ergo, I am sure Tennessee has more than satisfied that requirement in the 200 (+or-) hundred years she has possessed and administered the real property in question. Georgia is just SOL.

]]> By: Jay http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195806 Jay Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:00:26 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195806 "Nuts!" “Nuts!”

]]> By: Cactus Jack http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195786 Cactus Jack Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:44:36 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195786 "Tennessee’s legislature is actually wasting the time to draft a response that consists of more than the words fuck off. I’m honestly amazed." Lol! That would be priceless! And it could'nt possibly be mis-interpreted. “Tennessee’s legislature is actually wasting the time to draft a response that consists of more than the words fuck off. I’m honestly amazed.”

Lol! That would be priceless! And it could’nt possibly be mis-interpreted.

]]> By: Alcibiades McZombie http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195785 Alcibiades McZombie Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:39:18 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195785 East Tennessee was pro-Union during the Civil War, right? Then I think they would be fully justified in performing a "March to the Sea". East Tennessee was pro-Union during the Civil War, right? Then I think they would be fully justified in performing a “March to the Sea”.

]]> By: Rabbit http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195782 Rabbit Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:16:51 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195782 No response was more eloquent and well-deserved than Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks Perhaps Tennesee should use it for a template. Regards, Rabbit. No response was more eloquent and well-deserved than Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks

Perhaps Tennesee should use it for a template.

Regards,
Rabbit.

]]> By: Kristopher http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195765 Kristopher Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:50:19 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195765 Had the same crap happen on the CA-OR border. The 9th eventually decided that the boundary monuments that were in use for the last 100+ years carry more weight than a GPS reading. If you look at that border at topozone.com with low scale topo maps, you can see the border snaking back and forth on eother side of the parallel it was supposed to follow. The court stuck with the monuments because of precedent ... move the border to the actual latitude line would screw up over 100 years of surveying, property contracts, and interstate agreements. Had the same crap happen on the CA-OR border.

The 9th eventually decided that the boundary monuments that were in use for the last 100+ years carry more weight than a GPS reading.

If you look at that border at topozone.com with low scale topo maps, you can see the border snaking back and forth on eother side of the parallel it was supposed to follow.

The court stuck with the monuments because of precedent … move the border to the actual latitude line would screw up over 100 years of surveying, property contracts, and interstate agreements.

]]> By: ParatrooperJJ http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195756 ParatrooperJJ Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:16:35 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195756 Yup i think GA actually has a good case and congressional intent on their side. Yup i think GA actually has a good case and congressional intent on their side.

]]> By: Rustmeister http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/comment-page-1/#comment-195748 Rustmeister Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:06:31 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2008/02/22/repelling_invaders_-_2/#comment-195748 This could actually turn into something. GA has other water problems with Florida, too. This could actually turn into something. GA has other water problems with Florida, too.

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