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In response to Denise Horton’s letter, which your paper headlined “The ‘monetization’ of Rappahannock County,” we need to get a few things straight.
First, let’s not rely on Stewart Brand, delightful man though he is, for a definition of “Real Estate.”
Ms. Horton wants this to relate to “real estate” so let’s look a little deeper. “Real Estate” relates to “Real Property,” a subject all law students ponder their first year in school.
Obviously, from the context, Stewart Brand did not ponder the subject So deeply. The “real” refers to land, not cows or chickens or people or houses or TVs.
Those were “chattels” or “personal property.”
It dates back to the feudal times. Really, from 500 to 1300, a.d., or so, in Britain, and it is the bedrock of American property law (and you thought history did not matter).
In feudal law the only
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