your home is not your castle

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Originally Posted by GepperRankins

i wonder if there's ways round having your house destroyed like this. one time my brother had debt collectors after him so we made a contract where he sold all his valuable possessions to me for 50 pence. so that if a bailiff came to the door we could discombobulate them into not taking any of his stuff. maybe you could sell a house to someone who can't be contacted then "rent" it

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The actual "compulsory seizure" would be an official government action under this ruling, so it would be operated the same way as a road project. I would assume that government has procedures for "uncontactable" owners based on time-scales.
I doubt very much that any project would be held up by any of the scenarios posed.

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my dad left 4 years ago but my parents never got divorced. pretending we're in america: if my mum dies intestate and the house is still connubial, what happens to it as my dad may be untraceable

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I believe different rules apply to the lumpen there but over here, the house would go to the next of kin (your dad) but since he is untracable then it would be passed on to the you in trust.

sorry to go off-topic but frankly i find that quite offensive.

it's a rediculous stereotype to call single parent families lumpen. it may be ostensible as we're poor but we certainly aren't lumpen.

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Originally Posted by GepperRankins

sorry to go off-topic but frankly i find that quite offensive.

it's a rediculous stereotype to call single parent families lumpen. it may be ostensible as we're poor but we certainly aren't lumpen.

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I think manker was a tad orotund with his post but I'm sure he didn't mean offense.


On-topic: I'm with Busyman here, if anyone "bought" my property out then I'd be waiting for them Stephen King's Roadwork style.

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sorry to go off-topic but frankly i find that quite offensive.

it's a rediculous stereotype to call single parent families lumpen. it may be ostensible as we're poor but we certainly aren't lumpen.

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I think manker was a tad orotund with his post but I'm sure he didn't mean offense.

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You are right, lumpen doesn't seem offensive in my Gumbo-esque dialect from the valleys. Humble apologies, Dave.

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I think manker was a tad orotund with his post but I'm sure he didn't mean offense.

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You are right, lumpen doesn't seem offensive in my Gumbo-esque dialect from the valleys. Humble apologies, Dave.

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thanks for your spurious apology, i don't believe your "gumbo-esque" dialect is a good reason to call my family underclass though.

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You are right, lumpen doesn't seem offensive in my Gumbo-esque dialect from the valleys. Humble apologies, Dave.

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thanks for your spurious apology, i don't believe your "gumbo-esque" dialect is a good reason to call my family underclass though.

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Hmm.

You seem tense, maybe a little jaded. I suggest some spiritual uplifting may be just the thing to lift you out of the slums, I mean slump.

Tai-Chi is said to do just this by increasing one's proprioception and kinesthesia. Perchance a local affiliation could assist you in attaining this worthwhile goal.

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Tai-Chi is said to do just this by increasing one's proprioception and kinesthesia. Perchance a local affiliation could assist you in attaining this worthwhile goal.

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Erm. You'll find that Qi-gong is better for redirecting the body's energies or chi, thus enabling our friend to calm his ardour.
But I suspect that, all taken with your smart-arsery machination you didn't use google to its full extent. :P

edit: sorry for turning this into a martial arts topic. :(

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Tai-Chi is said to do just this by increasing one's proprioception and kinesthesia. Perchance a local affiliation could assist you in attaining this worthwhile goal.

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Erm. You'll find that Qi-gong is better for redirecting the body's energies or chi, thus enabling our friend to calm his ardour.
But I suspect that, all taken with your smart-arsery machination you didn't use google to its full extent. :P

edit: sorry for turning this into a martial arts topic. :(

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In my perquisite as forum grammaticaster, I completely blagged that post and as such am particularly happy that Tai-Chi was in some way relevent :happy:

manker

stop joking around. don't think this will neutralise the pathos of your machination