this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
251 points (100.0% liked)

news

23550 readers
57 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

We need more shit like this

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Australian "anti-landlord" activists are sharing information on empty properties across the country for squatters to take over and potentially steal the deeds from their original owners.

So are these deeds like bearer bonds where they have no paper trail of the owner, and whoever physically possesses the document proclaiming ownership is legally the owner? Lmao

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Squatters rights were laws passed in a lot of western countries back when you could pass a law that wasn't neoliberal number fiddling.
Usucaption in general dates back to the Romans

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

They're being overturned, though. Squatters better act quick before they're gone completely. :-/

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh so the right wingers just want to embrace modernity instead of retvrning to Romvn trvdition?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Literally no retvrn guy wants any part of roman culture back. Like imagine telling one of those guys we're abolishing the police and making a public holiday only women are legally allowed to participate in. Also the rich are expected to pay for all public festivities which we're having weekly now.

Edit: I want to be clear that ancient Rome was BAD, but it's funny just how much conservatives would hate it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

We need to bring back greco-roman social mores! Women are expected to be horny and abortion is legal until the kid is legally an adult.
You can legally sell your kid into slavery 3 times. But not 4 that would be weird.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can legally sell your kid into slavery 3 times. But not 4 that would be weird.

So wait, the same kid or 3 different kids

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Same kid. A person who had been sold 3 times by his pater familias (male head of the family) was no longer subject to the legal power of the pater familias. But they were if they had only been sold twice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are people giving him back or is it more like rent?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think Roman slavery was usually like a contract thing. You're enslaved for x months/years and these are the kinds of things you can be expected to do.

Not an expert though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I think Roman slavery was usually like a contract thing. You're enslaved for x months/years and these are the kinds of things you can be expected to do.

That's Nexum, possibly. Slaves taken in pirate raids or as war booty were slaves for life, as were vernae. They could achieve freedom by various means, but it was not assumed or an inherent part of the process.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If you're selling someone multiple times you're probably dealing with nexum, which would sort of be like... renting your child out I suppose. Or like using your kid as collateral? I don't really know the exact mechanics here.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Basically if you inhabit and maintain an abandoned property for some number of years without the owner complaining you get ownership rights. It's why all the crumbling unused mansions in Kensington owned by Saudi princes as speculation have 24 hour human surveillance.