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[–] 132 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Is a common law attorney someone who legally becomes your lawyer after you’ve lived with them for a certain amount of time

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I assume you know and are joking, but in case you (or someone else) doesn't know - sovcits commonly argue that courts have to operate under Common Law or Admiralty Law. They frequently try to get cases thrown out because that's not a thing so courts obviously refuse to call themselves either.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Funny enough, in Canada we have common-law and civil-law (Québec), which is where my mind immediately went.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is actually true of the United States, as well. It's Common Law for pretty much everywhere and Civil Law for Louisiana.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Everyone thinks that's how it works, but you have to call them your lawyer, and they have to call you their client. You both have to behave like you're in that level of relationship. It's not automatic or forced just because you live together and have sex.

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  • [–] 112 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I've heard you can apparently buy a house with 10 silver coins, the original deed, 2 witnesses present and 2 secretaries present is this true?

    Yes, this is true. Provided the seller is a dumb dumb who will accept 10 silver coins (~$400 USD) for a house while 4 of their friends watch in awe.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    It's likely worse than that, even. "Silver coins" in sovcit often mean silver in color, i.e. quarters.

    Dude wants a house for $2.50.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There are silver content quarters, pre 1964 I think? These are the ones they use, or attempt to use because it's all bullshit anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    The thinking is that there's real value in silver. The ones made today aren't actually worth thier face value in materials.

    Isnt gonna get a house, but i like the sentiment that my physical money has real physical value.

    Course. We need to hasten the apocalypse, so why not just make up numbers in the cloud instead

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I thought you were mathing wrong since I've rarely seen it above $25 (not that I've checked in a loooong time) so I looked up the current spot price. Damn, nearly at $40US/ozt.

    ... I should sell some of these silver coins I inherited.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Every sovcit post is just chock-full of words being used oddly.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    In what world does "conveyance" refer to a living space?

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    They think that if you don't use the word "driving", then you don't need a driver's license. I assume desperately trying not to use the word car is some kind of mush brain attempt to not admit it is a vehicle.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Conveyance means car. He's talking about living in his car.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I kinda feel bad for this person. They're either incompetent or delusional to the point that they basically have a disability.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't.

    IRS sending in letters about 21 years of scam back taxes I apparently owe them

    Taxes are supposed to exist as a way to provide upkeep for infrastructure, government services, and social safety nets. Refusing to pay them while also still benefitting from tax-funded infrastructure and services is just being a parasite on society.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've got to be honest, I might feel bad for them if SovCits weren't such massive pricks, but being a stupid piece of shit isn't equivalent to insanity to me.

    Your Aunt is a lizard person? Insane. You think that you can increase your personal power and spiritual essence by consuming other living beings (insect-to-human cannibalism pipeline; I'm not joking this has been observed, codified and studied) to absorb their souls? Insane. Think that random family members, strangers and people on the TV are threatening you or compelling you to murder? Insane. Thinking that you don't have to pay taxes, obtain or use a driver's license for driving vehicles, etc. because you're not a legal scholar or even lawyer, and base your whackadoodle dumb-fuck interpretations of antiquated legal statutes sourced from Youtubers & Facebook posts? Not insane - You deserve what's coming to you, not because you're a 'bad person', but because you're too stupid to function in society and too arrogant to listen to anyone contradicting you for your own benefit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This is like those people who argue about whether or not supernatural beliefs are insanity. You can be sane and believe all kinds of crazy shit as long as there's a community of people who also believes in that crazy shit.

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  • Bingo. If I'm not mistaken, it has as much to do with perceived social good as much as the size of the community supporting it. Established religions often have considerable resources at their disposal which they can put to use defending the legal rights of their adherents (or establish, depending on the point in the timeline). Small, siloed conspiracy communities don't have that same centralized organization to coordinate efforts, let alone the financial means to challenge a country's legal system in the larger sense.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    says a load of obvious nonsense

    Is this true?

    No, you gibbering buffoon.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Common law attorney = just some guy (no law degree)

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Kidnapping? No, it's common law imprisonment!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Common-law attorney = just some guy (no law degree)

    Common law attorney = just some guy (yes law degree)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Common law-attorney = good for Common, he got his law degree.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    I don't hate the idea of buying a house in hard metals with witnesses, instead of wasting money on a lawyer. But surely this person isn't so dumb as to think the price wouldn't be set by the seller, rather than legal nonsense.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Show up to their house with silver and some witnesses. Your house now.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think that varies on the amount of silver.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Dunno truck full of coins is my preferred form of tender. It just sucks to count.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But surely this person isn't so dumb

    Ah, so this is your first encounter with sovcits?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sadly no, but my first encounter with one who's this far down the rabbit hole. Usually it's just creative tax dodges and exploitation of every loophole that I run into - stuff like creating a 501 nonprofit corporation to buy a thing, voting yourself off the board, and declaring bankruptcy (I forget which chapter at the moment), so that basically the creditors get told (legally) to go jump in a lake.

    It's madness, but it's plausible. And it has worked at least once. That's the level I usually see them at.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That has less of a sovcit texture and more of a sane, but dishonest and scummy person trying to get something for nothing.

    Sovereign Citizens are a special genus where beliefs tend to among other things fixate on a separation of a paper and "real" person, common citation of common law, common incorrect citation of Federal law in state matters, and fixation on treating all legal interactions as if they were contractual exchanges.

    I don't think I've ever seen anything that's normally considered sovcit nonsense win in a court. Very occasionally the sovcit wins in spite of themselves, but the actual arguments didn't help.

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  • Well, in a certain sideways sense, every legal interaction kinda is a matter of contract. The problem is that you don't get the right to choose whether you're a signatory or not, and the other party has the right to amend or update the contract at any time they choose. The problem is, unless you're a signatory to at least one of those contracts (by birth or by immigration), you have no rights at all. Once you're in, you really can't get out safely.

    Basically your birth certificate is the checkbox on the EULA of lawdul society. Good Lord, I hate that I just thought of it that way, but it works so well as an analogy.

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    already hired a common law attorney but looking to hire more attorneys

    need advice asap pronto

    Looks like you already know what you need to do brother.

    Hire even moar attorneys

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Facebook is an enormous mistake.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    All of us on facebook when it was college only knew it was a mistake to make it public.

    It was amazing to meet people in my dorm before school started.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You can buy a house with ten silver coins - if the seller is stupid enough.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This is actually true, but you have to do it at a crossroads on the Monday nearest to the full moon, turn counterclockwise 3 times, and throw salt over your left shoulder.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think you're thinking of learning how to play blues guitar.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Specifically blues guitar, I found that out the hard way. I wanted to shred some metal, but now all I can play is delta blues. I gave it a go for a while, but it’s just not my thing, totally killed my drive. Looking forward to hell. What a rip.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    You can buy a new house in my city for 10 silver coins, provided that each coin is worth $100,000.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Instead of coins, you should try magic beans, then you can live in the clouds.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    10 coins but only during a new moon.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Buying a house for coins and a special handshake sounds like something you'd overhear in a remote jungle village that's never made contact the outside world, yet it's coming from some guy on the fucking internet.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I suppose you could buy a house for whatever 10 silver coins are worth. The important missing variable is somebody willing to actually sell it. Sovcits seem to strangely think other people are onesidedly bound by contracts they invent.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'll sell a shitton of houses to that dude for silver coins. I might not own them, but that's his problem, i got the coins now

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes the leprechaun has to sell you his house for 10 silver coins but only if you have 2 witnesses

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Mate, just do heroin.

    It's at least a more fun way to end up homeless.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Hocus-pocus, your foreclosure is now a bouquet of flowers and magical silver coins each worth 1/10th of literally any house.

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