Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?
James Richard Tyrer <[email protected]>
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Andreas Pour wrote: > "Timothy R. Butler" wrote: > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >> >>>why would you quote a misquote? the actual phrase is "possession is >>>nine parts of the law." as to whether this comprises more or less >>>than 90 percent of it depends on how many parts the law has, though >>>i've never heard of anyone who limited it to 10. >> >> Huh, I learned something new today. I've always heard it the way Andreas put >>it. > > > Both are used. The "nine parts" one is esoteric, the "nine-tenths" is populist > (and gets about 4x the hits on Google). The "nine parts" is supposed to mean, > in essence, possession is tantamount to ownership (of which you can have actual, > constructive and symbolic), so 90% seems right to me. > > >>Of course, neither is actually correct in practice... I think no matter >>how much I might "possess" my neighbor's car, the Police would still come >>after me. ;-) > > > Well these matters are different b/c cars have VINs and are registered, so there > is a symbolic possession which would trump the actual possession. But think > more of a watch, or something else. If someone manages to steal your watch, and > is wearing it, and you see him, and you have no secret knowledge (like what is > engraved on the back), how can you get your watch back? > > Then there is always the concept of adverse possession. If you live on land > which is not yours, you immediately have rights superior to anyone but the "real > owner", and if you continue in possession for some number of years (such as 12), > subject to certain conditions, you end up getting full ownership of it if the > real owner does not kick you out in the meantime (so squatter becomes owner, in > a way). So in this way possession can even trump the (land deed) registration > system. Uh! Big surprise, the US now possesses the entire country of Iraq. I don't think that we have any intention of taking over private property. But, the oil fields were nationalized. The US now has possession of all Iraqi Government property. The US does have legal possession of the oil fields irrespective of whether or not we hire Halliburton to repair an operate them. -- JRT Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.