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- From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: title insurance
- Message-ID: <dbwQ02Vz2bUI01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 21:06:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.211625.6057@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation
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- In article <1992Nov16.211625.6057@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, dsc@gemini.tmc.edu
- (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov14.1297.20231@execnet> "hilary miller"
- > <hilary.miller@execnet.com> writes:
- > >...
- > > your hypothetical does not correctly state the law relating
- > > to forfeitures -- the title of a drug dealer is not void ab
- > > initio, it is merely forfeitable once the government takes
- > > certain statutory actions. It may take them only against the
- > > criminal and *his* property, not against a subsequent BFP.
- > ^^^^^^^
- > Shouldn't this be 'the accused' rather than 'the criminal'.
-
- Right, for two reasons:
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- 1) the subject person is never convicted of anything;
- 2) forfeiture is a civil proceeding.
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- Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
- The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
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