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Property is, in most cases, property. It can be bought, sold, inherited, transferred, etc.

• michaelt 13y ago
  I assume boomzilla doesn't mean confiscating the entire property, simply that with its transfer the california constitution should apply - including article X, which guarantees public access to beaches. In the UK, which has a long and sometimes poorly recorded legal history, there are procedures for this sort of thing. If land has some unusual legal status conferred on it by a 500 year old law, the government can simply pass a law saying "not any more it doesn't" and the unusual legal status is removed. I dread to think how complicated land ownership would end up after multiple hundreds or thousands of years if there were no way to change or update the laws made by our long-dead ancestors.
  • jfoutz 13y ago
    In the US, treaties with other countries become part of the "supreme law of the land" along with all the other federal stuff congress passes. Individual states don't have the right to alter those (effectively federal) laws. Sure, it could be changed, California is a big powerful state, but their representatives are busy people, and i'm sure billionaires can donate a few thousand dollars to ensure the issue never really comes up at the federal level.
• rdtsc 13y ago
  In general, in California, in US? Those are not as self-evident and obvious things. Nebraska for a while had a allodial title system up until 2005. Yeah you could basically pay a huge chunk of property taxes ahead and then be "free from property taxes". Well free as long as they didn't die. So yeah property is property is not as simple.