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#15611 From: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat Dec 1, 2007 9:11 am
Subject: File - OnSocraticTeachingMethod.txt
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THIS IS YOUR MODERATOR SPEAKING:

Whereas the Socratic teaching method requires the continued probing into the
subject with questions by a teacher having an understanding of the topic;

And whereas the Socratic teaching method requires that there be a general logic
of reasoning on subjects that have been developed by those who have shared goals
and objectives (which defined the subject focus); shared questions and problems
(whose solution they pursued); shared information and data (which they used as
an empirical basis); shared modes of interpreting or judging that information;
shared specialized concepts and ideas (which they used to help them organize
their data); shared key assumptions (that give them a basis from which to
collectively begin); and a shared point of view (which enables them to pursue
common goals from a common framework);

And whereas the Socratic teaching method requires that the teacher question
assumptions being made by the students ask the students to trace out the
implications and consequences of what they are saying;

And whereas the Socratic teaching method requires of a necessity that there be a
consensual teacher/student relationship wherein the student determines that
he/she has an interest in participating in a Socratic teaching method with a
teacher that the student considers to have more knowledge themselves;

And whereas the Tips & Tricks Yahoo Group does not consist of teachers and
students but rather consists of people who share a common interest having
varying degrees of knowledge on a wide variety of law topics and have an
interest in increasing their knowledge by the exchange of information and not
necessarily by being asked a single question by a group member that there is no
way to determine whether such member is qualified to ask that single question as
a teacher as the beginning of a Socratic teaching session, or, as a mere query
for knowledge;

And whereas the Tips & Tricks Yahoo Group already consists of people who have a
thirst for law knowledge and do not need to have their curiosity aroused or
their motivation be heightened by questioning;

AS YOUR MODERATOR it is therefore adjudged, ordered and decreed that the asking
of a single question, or, of a series of questions as the beginning of a, or
having the appearance of, a Socratic teaching session will not be allowed on the
Tips & Tricks group.

#15612 From: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat Dec 1, 2007 9:11 am
Subject: File - Get a video.txt
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Welcome to Tips & Tricks for going to court! I am delighted that you decided to
join my group. Some of you joined this group because you involved in a domestic
relations suit (divorce etc.), fighting the government over some issue (IRS,
zoning, traffic etc.), or you are going to court or would like to go court to
vindicate your rights and collect your damages. Others have joined this group
because they are either defending or expect to defend a suit.

It really does not matter why you are going to court; if you are going to court
a skill that will always greatly help you is the ability to skillfully do legal
research. In the law library there are books on every aspect of going to court.
There are books full of previous rulings by the courts in your jurisdiction.
There are books that tell all about how to do a divorce in your jurisdiction;
how to do a civil rights suit; how to defend and criminal or traffic case; how
to put on a trial. There are books full of sample forms that even describe how
to go about filling out the forms!

If you know how the law library works you can put your hands on the authority
and forms you need in minutes and put together paperwork that will have the
court thinking that you might be a lawyer. The ability to do legal research and
put together professional looking paperwork will be very intimidating to your
opponent; especially if your opponent has to hire and pay a lawyer to produce
paperwork that isn’t anywhere near as good as yours. And then, there’s the
internet. If you know the right places to look on the internet, you will rarely
need to make a trip to the law library. Almost everything you need can be
brought straight to your home via your internet connection if you know where to
look.

I went into two different law libraries with a professional video producer and
produced a video that shows what these books look like and went into detail on
how they work. I offer that video at www.legalresearchvideo.com. You will have
to watch the video numerous times to glean from and use all of the information
on there. When you have mastered the information there it will take you a long
way to becoming effective in the court. As an additional bonus for purchasing
the video I offer 110 law related links that will help you do research and find
forms online.

Also at that web site I give a substantial discount on Blackstone’s Law Course
when you buy a legal research video. In 1914 this course was used to prepare
lawyers to pass the bar examine. This two volume law course is well organized,
comprehensive, and easy to read. After you have read it cover to cover there
will not be much about law that you didn’t know you didn’t know. You will have a
good understanding respecting what remedies are available in any situation and a
starting place for your research for situations you or your friends are involved
in.

If you master the ability to do legal research it will be very empowering to
you.

Again, thanks for participating in Tips & Tricks. Bear

#15613 From: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat Dec 1, 2007 9:11 am
Subject: File - Sources of grief for the moderator.txt
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One of the biggest sources of grief for me as moderator and owner of Tips
& Tricks springs from when I reject a post. After rejecting a post, I have been
called a “Communist,” and a “censor”. I have been accused of keeping the “truth”
from the group. Comments like these cause me to examine myself. I think about
the time I left the group un-moderated while I attended the week long Feast of
Tabernacles. When I returned I learned that group members had been flaming each
other and that there had been a bunch of strife and the group had lost about a
third of its members in one week. When I think about that week and it occurs to
me that it is much better to have a moderated group.
       Then I review the posts to other Yahoo groups I am involved in and see
among those posts a bunch of spam that has nothing to do with law and group
members using the group to send private messages to each other and again it
occurs to me that it is much better to have a moderated group.
       When I review the other law groups I am involved in and see that Tips &
Tricks has passed them all with respect to number of members, again it occurs to
me that it is much better to have a moderated group. Then I consider…for Tips &
Tricks to become the largest law group, that has to mean that more people are
staying than are leaving the group. To me what that means is that I must be
doing more things right than I am wrong.
       That brings me to the point of this post. Instead of thinking of myself as
a “Communist” or a “censor”, I am now thinking of myself as an editor. As an
editor, I have been taking some editorial control of the content on Tips &
Tricks posts and as such, I have been drawing the line tighter on the posts I
allow in two areas:
       1) posts that draw conclusions without setting forth the facts or law that
were relied upon to draw the conclusion;
       2) What I have started to think of as dredging posts; posts in which the
poster makes little or no investment into the writing of it but posts it in
hopes that someone has already done the research they seek and will give it to
them for free. Below is a post I recently rejected that serves as an example of
both:

Do the Courts or the DOJ have a constitutional right to defend an
institution (IRS) foreign to the Constitution of the United States of
America? Can someone out there Please <sic> reply to this Question?

I rejected the above post saying, “When you re-post, I want you to include a
couple paragraphs about what you already know about this. You have drawn a
conclusion that IRS is "foreign to the Constitution of the United States". I
want you to include both the reasoning and facts that caused you to arrive at
this conclusion. You have drawn a conclusion that the DOJ (What are you doing
using an acronym anyway? How are we supposed to know what DOJ is?) has a
"constitutional right". I want you to include both the reasoning and facts that
caused you to arrive at this conclusion. You have drawn a conclusion that the
courts defend the IRS. I want you to include both the reasoning and facts that
caused you to arrive at this conclusion. Bear Tips & Tricks”
	 As the editor of Tips & Tricks posts, here is what I want from posters who seek
to stir things up or get some information for free. I want the poster to invest
something in the post that results in the post being substantive. Please notice
that the above post is a question containing conclusions that borders on the
Socratic teaching method. It cannot be told from the post whether the poster is
attempting to teach us something by asking the question, or, whether the poster
if genuinely ignorant about the topic. I would consider the post to be
substantive if the poster told us something like:

“I am in Federal Court right now on willful failure to file and I have been
thinking about whether the US Attorney or the Dept. of Justice can represent the
IRS. I was reading up on the history of the IRS and I cannot see where they were
ever created as a matter of law. I did some research on the authority of the
Dept. of Justice and I found a couple statutes, 28 USC ??? and 28 USC ??? that
appear to say that they can represent anybody they want…but when I ran those
statutes in the case law there were some cases that said they could not
represent anybody they want but none of those were about the IRS. The judge is
my case appears to be taking every opportunity to defend the IRS by…blah…blah,
etc. Is there anybody else on the group that has taken this issue farther than
this?”

I rejected another post for similar reasons. It went something like:

“How do I get a message to the group about unjust use of imminent domain in
Youngstown Ohio?”

I replied in my rejection that I would allow his message when he put with it
what research he had done and what tactics he was trying or thinking of trying.
For some reason it just does not sit well with me to let people troll the group
with posts that they invest nothing in for free legal research or for somebody
to ride in on their white horse and save the day for free. Here’s another way to
put it, if you are going to use Tips & Tricks to ask for free help with your
legal problem, please ask in a post that includes some substance including what
state you are in; some facts that we can think about; some research that you
have done; some reasoning that you have already gone through; and the details of
what you have already tried and the results.

Thanks for participating, Bear

#15614 From: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat Dec 1, 2007 9:11 am
Subject: File - dele Tips Rules.rtf
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#15615 From: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat Dec 1, 2007 9:11 am
Subject: File - Reading List 4 Book Reports.txt
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As moderator and owner of Tips & Tricks for going to court, I would like to see
this group pointed more in the direction or practical litigation tactics. When
people write in with their problems asking for solutions I would like to see
more members of the group be able to offer practical, workable solutions that
have a likelihood of success based on first hand study and research instead of
old tired research that has been passed around so much it cannot be used in
court because it is so far removed from its origin. As I see it, if group
members would read law books and write book reports and post them to the group
based on the usable ideas they glean from them, not only would the reader
benefit, but group members as well. Below is the first list of books I would
like group members to check out of the library, buy through Amazon.com, or
acquire through interlibrary loans, read, and post book reports about. I would
like to see some lively discussion respecting these books and expect that we
will have some testimonies from people who have used what they learn both from
reading the books, and reading and writing the book reports posted to Tips &
Tricks. We don’t want to be like the dog who chases a car and when he catches it
doesn’t know what to do. Let us be like “wise virgins” and be prepared.

Most of us would like to win on our motions, so, here are some books on motions
practice:

Motions Practice and Persuasion by L. Ronald Jorgesen

This book teaches new lawyers how to effectively make and oppose motions and
help
experienced lawyers create more original and innovative work. It teaches the
basics of motion
practice, with a particular focus on the written motion and provides expert
advice on making
motions more persuasive. It discusses the tools of persuasion and the marshaling
of facts, law
and form to produce a winning motion. Instead of merely laying out the rules,
the book outlines
the analysis that the lawyer must make in writing and presenting a motion.

Motion Practice, Fourth Edition by Roger S. Haydock David F. Herr
       This comprehensive guide not only analyzes every applicable rule of civil
procedure, but also gives you practice-proven techniques for evaluating what
motions will work most effectively in each of your cases. From early pretrial
motions dealing with complaints and jurisdiction to appellate motion practice
for both victor and vanquished, Motion Practice, Fourth Edition shows you both
what is permissible and what is advisable in such aspects of motion practice as:
Formal requirements Strategic uses Use of supporting documents Effective
advocacy Persuasive oral argument Ethical issues The authors include a table of
deadlines affecting motions, along with sample forms and illustrative trial
examples.

A Guide To Motion Practice, by Samuel S Tripp

Motion Practice by David F Herr

Motions in Federal Court, Civil Practice by Shepards Mcgraw-Hill

Civil motion practice: How To Win Without Trying  by Marcus E Cohn

Whether we are the plaintiff or the defendant we need to know how to do cross
examination, so, here are some books on doing effective cross examination:

Cross-examination: Science & Techniques by Larry S. Pozner, Roger Dodd

The Art of Questioning : Thirty Maxims of Cross-Examination by Peter Megargee
Brown
       Step by step, how lawyers and nonlawyers alike can learn to ask the right
questions and get the answer they want, whether it’s in the courtroom or the
boardroom.

The Art of Cross-Examination by Francis L. Wellman
	 With the cross-examinations of important witnesses in some celebrated cases.
Wellman, one of the great nineteenth-century trial lawyers, made his reputation
in the musty New York
courtrooms of the 1880s and 1890s as assistant corporation counsel and assistant
district
attorney. In this volume he draws upon his own experiences and the brilliant
achievements of
other noted lawyers to explain and exemplify the principles of questioning. He
quotes
extensively from many memorable cases, utilizing them to illustrate both the
manner and matter
of cross-examination. He takes up the handling of the perjured witness and the
expert, he
underscores the importance of sequence, and he offers many insights into the
psychology of the
witness; showing that knowing when to elicit information, and when not to, is
critical to the
artistry of the advocate.

Cross-Examination: The Comprehensive Guide for Experts by Steven Babitsky, James
J., Jr. Mangraviti
       The ultimate measure of every expert is how well the expert performs
during cross-examination. SEAK’s new text, Cross-Examination: The Comprehensive
Guide For Experts will help experts quickly and efficiently master the art of
responding to each and every cross-examination question truthfully and artfully.
Experts will learn how to prepare for, anticipate, recognize, and effectively
deal with counsel
       About the Author Steven Babitsky and James J. Mangraviti, Jr. are the
nation's leading and most prolific authors and trainers on expert witness
issues. They are both former trial lawyers whose past texts include: How To
Excel During Cross-Examination: Techniques for Experts that Work, How To Excel
During Depositions: Techniques for Experts that Work, and The Comprehensive
Forensic Services Manual: The Essential Resources for all Experts. Attorneys
Babitsky and Mangraviti have trained thousands of experts on the skills needed
to be more effective and better assist the trier of fact.

Here are some books on how to make effective closing arguments:

Closing Arguments -- by Frederick Busch;

Ladies And Gentlemen Of The Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments In Modern Law -- by
Michael
S. Lief

In the Interest of Justice : Great Opening and Closing Arguments of the Last 100
Years by Joel
Seidemann

Closing Arguments: The Last Battle by Mike Papantonio, Fred Levin, Martin Levin

There are even books on jurisdiction:

Federal Jurisdiction (Introduction to Law)  by Erwin Chemerinsky
	 A Review: I'm a very average law student, and my federal courts class was
stacked with the top 2nd and 3rd year students in my school. Despite this, I got
the highest grade in the class. The reason...this book. This single most
impressive book I have encountered in 3 years of law school. And if you plan to
practice in the federal court system, this book is essential. Buy it.

The Practice And Jurisdiction Of The Court Of Admiralty: In Three Parts by John
E. Hall

A Treatise on the Law of Lis Pendens: Or the Effect of Jurisdiction upon
Property Involved in
Suit by John I. Bennett

Let’s study up on trial tactics:

The Trial Lawyers : The Nation's Top Litigators Tell How They Win by Emily
Couric

The Underground Lawyer by Michael Louis Minns

Trial : Theories, Tactics, Techniques by Roger S. Haydock, John Sonsteng

Trial tactics;: A book of suggestions on the trial of cases, containing
pertinent addresses by many well-known trial experts by Asher L Cornelius

Trial tactics and methods by Robert E Keeton

Successful trial tactics by Aaron Smith Cutler

Basic expressions for trial lawyers: Supplement to Keeton, Trial tactics and
methods by Robert
E Keeton

Eyewitness Testimony Strategies and Tactics/With Supplement: Strategies and
Tactics by
William Carroll, Edward Arnolds

Questioning Techniques and Tactics by Jeffrey L. Kestler

Dombroff on Unfair Tactics by Mark A. Dombroff

#15616 From: BOB GREGORY <rhgusn@...>
Date: Sat Dec 1, 2007 4:18 am
Subject: Re: Please review 'November 22'sent complaint letter about a collection agy tryin]
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A correction was filed negating the Diversified Metals statement by the IRS or DOJ attorney that the IRS is not an agency of the United States.  The actual style of that case is:  Diversified Metal Products Inc. v. T-Bow Company Trust, et al.

When another DOJ attorney had stated that the IRS is not a U.S. government agency, what was meant by that testimony was that within that particular context, due to the nature of the issue being litigated and that of the particular statutory authority being invoked, the IRS did not meet the definition of such an "agency".

Here is the operative part of a letter clarifying the earlier assertion:




That clarification is not generally correct.  The applicable law is:

 28 USC 451. Definitions

As used in this title

The term “agency” includes any department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or any corporation in which the United States has a proprietary interest, unless the context shows that such term was intended to be used in a more limited sense.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, or, as Will Rogers said, "It ain't what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

leos9 wrote:

The IRS is not a U.S Government Agency. It is an Agency of the
IMF. (Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJE
U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate Report 94-1148 pg. 5967,
Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.)


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#15617 From: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun Dec 2, 2007 9:23 am
Subject: File - RulesCheckListB4Posting.rtf
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#15618 From: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun Dec 2, 2007 9:23 am
Subject: File - Promotion of other web pages.txt
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People have been using Tips & Tricks to promote their web pages, conference
calls, and seminars. From here on out, before I allow that I am going to require
a link to Tips & Tricks and my web pages on their web pages.

Below are both my web pages and code for a Tips & Tricks link to make easy to
add links to the web page you would like to promote on Tips & Tricks.

When you post a link to somebody else’s web page; also post where the Tips &
Tricks link and links to my web pages appear on their web page. I will delete
that before I approve the post. Failure to do so will result in the post being
rejected until it is in compliance.

My webmaster reminds you to cut and paste this code into note pad first then
stick the code in your site;

  I appreciate your participation in Tips & Tricks, Bear

There are several options for the Tips & Tricks link; choose one you like:

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The web pages I want links to are:

www.irs-armory.com
www.irslienthumper.com
www.irslevythumper.com
www.legalbears.com
www.legalresearchvideo.com
www.cantheydothat.com
(A free IRS lien evaluation)

#15619 From: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun Dec 2, 2007 9:23 am
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From: Legalbear [bear@...]
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 4:57 PM
To: 'tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: Hear Ye!! Hear Ye!! This is your fair warning!

Dear Tips & Tricks Group:

This is your moderator speaking. I realize this is just a Yahoo Group and that
if your post does not make it to the group it is not the end of the world.

I have a predicament. As has been demonstrated in the past, if the group has
gone un-moderated all kinds of craziness, strife/flames, and off point
posts/spam come into the group making it no fun and results ultimately in the
group losing members. That makes changing the group to un-moderated an
unattractive option.

There are two group rule violations that are needlessly making me crazy and
taking up a lot of my time. As the group has grown larger the problem has
increased in magnitude necessitating what follows. Those problems are:

1.    Group members replying to Tips & Tricks posts and leaving prior group
posts (usually this portion has the carrots next to it), exceeding the length of
their reply hanging off the end of their reply/email.

2.   Group members using the group to forward email to only one group member
that can answer/reply to the email.

In the past, I have returned these emails for correction. Then, a new problem
arises; people responding to the rejection email because they will not take the
time to understand what I am saying. Usually, this is worst on point 2 above. If
I reject 3-4 posts for correction and compliance with group rules, it is an easy
prediction that I will receive 3-4 emails back in my inbox replying to the
rejection.

MY SOLUTION: Part of what is time consuming is copying and pasting the specifics
as to why the email is rejected. I have noticed that some group members pay no
heed to the specifics for the rejection and continue to disregard the group
rules in new posts. So, to discourage rule violations such as points 1 & 2
above, as of this posting forward I WILL SIMPLY DELETE THE POST. I will leave it
on you to re-read group rules. You get to figure out why your post never made it
to the group. I have it set up now that group rules are sent out every thirty
days automatically.

If you have a problem remembering to deal with point 1, I suggest that to post
to the group that you start with a brand new email, put in the same subject
line, and then copy over the portion of the group post you are replying to.

Usually, violators of point 2 can’t find an email address for the single group
member they need to email. Here is a suggestion, if you use a preview screen
(where your emails are displayed on the left and when you highlight the email it
shows you the email on the right), look at the top of the message you are
reading. You should see something that pertains to Yahoo and to the right of
that is the senders email address. Double click on that and a box will open that
you can copy the senders email address out of and paste into the "To" line of
your reply email.

I apologize in advance, for deleting your future posts that are not in
conformity with group rules. J Bear

PHONE #s: 970-330-3883/720-203-5142 c.

For mailing:  Excellence Unlimited, 2830 27th St. Ln. #B115, Greeley, CO  80634

BEAR'S WEB PAGES:

www.legal-research-video.com
www.legalbears.com
www.irslienthumper.com
www.irs-armory.com

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#15620 From: "Legalbear" <bear@...>
Date: Sun Dec 2, 2007 5:10 pm
Subject: Thoughts on foreclosure fight
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Madison Smith sobaybuild2000@... posted this to the trustees_agents Yahoo Group and I thought it would prove useful if you are fighting a foreclosure:

 

Oh I have a lot experiences in the mortgage crap! as it were. I personal have used some it and have had friends use other crap! I have yet to see any evidence of anyone ever saving there homes or pay with a Bond or Promissory Note or even a Bonded Promissory Note. Not one of those clowns out there that promote any of that, have any proof of their claims at all!

 

The only way of getting the banks is by going after them for fraud. You must go after the banks by taking them in to court and make them produce the Note and make them follow the rule of the court as well as the rule of evidence.

 

In the foreclosure cases the bank must be the Holder in due Course having the right to foreclose. In most cases the bank doesn’t have the Note. In most cases when you look at the mortgage in the definitions of a Loan it may something like this “Loan is evidence by the Note and Mortgage”. So if a Loan is evidence by the Note and Mortgage, and the bank doesn’t have the Note then there is no evidence of a loan is there.

 

The “and” part of the definition is very important it means, a part of, not one without the other.

 

Read the attached pg from Black’s Law 4Ed 1957 (There was no attachment to his post.)

 

So that that being said the Note and the Mortgage mean NOTHING without the other in the case of a Loan of credit on a titled property.

 

Personally I witnessed an attorney state in open court. The Judge; “Do you have the Note”?

 

The banks attorney; “No your honor, our client has followed standard industry practice pooled the Note with others and sold it to their investors”

 

I was there as a witness along with two other Notaries.

 

It is all about the contract and the terms within that contract; the Note and the Mortgage being the contract/Trust indenture.

 

If there is one part missing then there is no contract and no controversy. If there is no controversy then the banks have no standing, and if the banks have no standing then the court has no jurisdiction.

 

However if you bring it in under fraud against the banks then you must prove that the bank has no right to enforce a contract which can be done by discovery.

 

If you have already done a Notary Protest to which you have recorded, then that can be brought in as evidence to move the court for further discovery. A Notary Protest is evidence under the Rules of evidence I believe 920 and 921. I would have to look it up again as well as 201.

 

The banks well try and say you signed a mortgage agreement and enter a copy of that agreement. The judge well then ask you if you signed that agreement or ask is that your signature? Your reply is, no that is not my signature. So under the rules of evidence 1003 they must now produce the evidence that the signature on that document is yours. But still must have BOTH DOCUMENTS the Note and Mortgage to enforce so never loose sight of that.

 

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www.legalbears.com

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www.cantheydothat.com

www.judgeonaleash.com

 

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#15621 From: "vivus_spartacus" <vivus_spartacus@...>
Date: Sun Dec 2, 2007 7:46 pm
Subject: Re: (Wisdom) on foreclosure fight
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--- In tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com, "Legalbear" <bear@...> wrote:
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> Madison Smith sobaybuild2000@... posted this to the trustees_agents
> Yahoo Group and I thought it would prove useful if you are
fighting a  foreclosure:
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"The banks well try and say you signed a mortgage agreement and
enter a copy of that agreement. The judge well then ask you if you
signed that agreement or ask is that your signature?"

   "Your reply is, no that is not my signature."


THAT IS NOT the Proper Reply/Response "Madison Smith"!!!


The PROPER Response is a Demurrer.


Therefore the Correct Reply should be as:


'I have No information, or knowledge sufficient to form a belief as
to the Authenticity of the signature presented by opposing party
which is alleging same to be mine.'

NOTE:
Since the Proponent has the Burden to Establish the Facts and
Evidence to support the allegation, There is NO obligation to either
help establish such, or RISK looking like a LIAR in Open Court!


He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools
will be destroyed. Proverbs 13:20

Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your
getting, Get understanding. Proverbs 4:7


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#15622 From: mobinem@...
Date: Mon Dec 3, 2007 1:08 am
Subject: coincidence
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For those that believe in coincidences, you may want to read Revelation 13 and

TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 7 > SUBCHAPTER IV > Part D > § 666.

The later is very informative about how the social security number is not yours. Better confirmed in

TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 7 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 405

 Â§ 405. Evidence, procedure, and certification for payments

(c) (2)  (B)

(i) In carrying out the Commissioner’s duties under subparagraph (A) and subparagraph (F), the Commissioner of Social Security shall take affirmative measures to assure that social security account numbers will, to the maximum extent practicable, be assigned to all members of appropriate groups or categories of individuals by assigning such numbers (or ascertaining that such numbers have already been assigned):

 

Saying it is a social security number is incorrect, social security account number is actually the correct verbiage. Thusly, it requires one's cognitive choice to be numbered, in return for the privilege of doing business. When numbered, you are required to use your number to number your children then turn over possession of them to the State.

 

 


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#15623 From: mobinem@...
Date: Mon Dec 3, 2007 6:50 pm
Subject: foreclosure not by holder in due course
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If you do a search for "foreclosure not by holder in due course" you will be very surprised what you find. I will be posting my discoveries, both law and precedents, as soon as I organize everything. If you are going through a foreclosure you may not want to wait for me. Here is what I have discovered:
1) Only the holder in due course can foreclose;
   Banks that buy pools of mortgages are not HIDC, they are Holder of value, and therefore can not foreclose;
   HFV only has encumbrance rights;
2) HDIC requires a Sum Certain note;
   Notes that are not for a fixed amount, including all variable rate interest loans, are not Sum Certain;
   "To be negotiable, a note must be for a "sum certain." Former RSA 382-A:3-106(1) (1961) (amended and recodified 1994) provided:The sum payable is a sum certain even though it is to be paid(a) with stated interest or by stated installments; or (b) with stated different rates of interest before and after default or a specified date; or, (c) with a stated discount or addition if paid before or after the date fixed for payment; or (d) with exchange or less exchange, whether at a fixed rate or at the current rate; or (e) with costs of collection or an attorney's fee or both upon default.
 


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#15624 From: mobinem@...
Date: Tue Dec 4, 2007 10:47 am
Subject: Sum Certain
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I must apologize, upon further research the UCC 3 has been revised and the Sum Certain requirement disallowing "variable interest rate" has been removed. It appears the banksters knew something was coming.
 

J. P. Morgan   

Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.



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#15625 From: mobinem@...
Date: Tue Dec 4, 2007 10:56 am
Subject: SSN
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                                      Revelation 13

 16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand*1, or in their foreheads*2:

 17 And that no man might buy or sell*3, save he that had the mark*4, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

 18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six*5.

*1. Read as write hand, the right hand was the hand considered as used for writing;

*2. Read as memory,

*3. See Title 42-Ch.7-Sub IV-Part D-§ 666;

*4. Mark: a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"—

      Genesis, not necessarily something others can see;

*5. 666, no coincidence it is the same number: The Scriptures warn us that a mark will be

      Required by man’s law for people to do business and that the mark will be established

      as 666. It is no coincidence that under § 666 are the requirements for the number’s

      use concerning children so the government can take earnings and possessions from

      the people that are numbered that do not cooperate.

      

The social security account number is a possession of the SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, not a possession of any man, woman or child. For a man to claim the number as his he as thusly received the MARK as mentioned in the Holy Scriptures.

 

The number and the MARK belong to the SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION and not to me. It is not mine. I did not apply for it. I do not accept it. I will not receive it. I am forbidden by the Creator from having it. It is against my religious beliefs.

 

TITLE 42 > CHAPTER 7 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 405

 Â§ 405. Evidence, procedure, and certification for payments

(2)  (B)

(i) In carrying out the Commissioner’s duties under subparagraph (A) and subparagraph (F), the Commissioner of Social Security shall take affirmative measures to assure that social security account numbers will, to the maximum extent practicable, be assigned to all members of appropriate groups or categories of individuals by assigning such numbers (or ascertaining that such numbers have already been assigned):

 

No one has a social security number. The SSA has social security accounts that are numbered.If you claim it is your number, something bad happens.

 

social security account number

social security   your    number

 

The religious defense may be strongest:

Summa est lex quae pro religione facit: That is the highest law which favors religion;

 Summa ratio est quae pro religione facit: That consideration is strongest which determines in favor of religion;

 



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#15626 From: "Legalbear" <bear@...>
Date: Tue Dec 4, 2007 5:54 pm
Subject: UCC Applies to Real Estate Loans?
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I rejected a message to the group that responded to something Mobinem post saying, “Whoa! The UCC generally does not apply to real estate
transactions.” by saying, “Charlie: I did some research on that. It does apply to the loans on real estate. Do you remember seeing any authority along those lines? Bear Tips & Tricks” To which Charlie replied, “Bear:  No.  Can you point me in the right direction?  I have the complete Anderson on the UCC, 2003 edition.” To which I replied, “Charlie: I searched for “real estate” and “Uniform Commercial Code” in www.versuslaw.com’s data base for Colorado and immediately came to this case that seems to explain what I was saying to you:”

 

Citicorp Person-To-Person Financial Center Inc. v. Fremont National Bank, 738 P.2d 29 (Colo.App. 04/02/1987)

 

[1]      Colorado Court of Appeals

 

 

[2]      No. 85CA0002

 

 

[3]      738 P.2d 29, 1987.CO.40422 <http://www.versuslaw.com>

 

 

[4]      Filed: April 2, 1987.

 

 

[5]      CITICORP PERSON-TO-PERSON FINANCIAL CENTER, INC., A COLORADO CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE,

v.

FREMONT NATIONAL BANK, A COLORADO CORPORATION, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT

 

 

[6]      Appeal from the District Court of Fremont County, Honorable Paul J. Keohane, Judge.

 

 

[7]      Machol & Machol for plaintiff-appellee.

 

 

[8]      Hawthoren & Meconi, Rocco F. Meconi for defendant-appellant.

 

 

[9]      Metzger, Judge. Van Cise, J., specially concurs. Kelly, J., concurs

 

 

[10]     Metzger

 

 

[11]     Opinion by JUDGE METZGER

 

 

[12]     In this action to determine the right to the proceeds from an installment land sale contract, defendant, Fremont National Bank (the Bank), appeals the summary judgment entered in favor of plaintiff, Citicorp Person-to-Person Financial Center, Inc., (Citicorp). Citicorp had claimed a right to the proceeds by virtue of the "rents, issues and profits" clause in a deed of trust it held on the real property. The Bank had claimed a right to the proceeds by virtue of an assignment of the proceeds from the seller, and a perfected security interest therein pursuant to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. We reverse and remand with directions.

 

 

[13]     Monte and Martha Campbell owned a 40-acre tract of land in Fremont County, Colorado. This land was subject to a deed of trust in favor of the Federal Land Bank of Wichita, which is not a party to this dispute. The land was also subject to a second deed of trust in favor of Nationwide Finance Corporation, Citicorp's predecessor in interest.

 

 

[14]     On June 15, 1977, the Campbells entered into and recorded with the Fremont County Clerk and Recorder an installment land sale contract agreeing to convey 11.26 acres of their 40-acre tract to Charles and Mona Randal. This contract specifically referred to the two deeds of trust mentioned above.

 

 

[15]     On June 23, 1977, Citicorp entered into a loan agreement with the Campbells. To secure the promissory note involved in that transaction, the Campbells executed a deed of trust covering the entire 40-acre tract, and recorded it that same day with the Fremont county clerk and recorder. The note provided that the sole collateral for the loan was the land itself, and made no mention of the installment land sale contract between the Campbells and the Randals. The deed of trust included a clause granting Citicorp the right to "rents, issues and profits" upon default by the Campbells. As part of this transaction, the note and deed of trust in favor of Nationwide Finance were cancelled.

 

 

[16]     In December 1980, the Campbells obtained a loan from the Bank. As part of this transaction, the Campbells assigned their right to receive monthly payments under the Randal installment land sale contract, and gave the Bank possession of the installment land sale contract documents. The loan documents were filed with the county clerk and recorder that same month, and on February 13, 1981, the Bank filed with the Secretary of State an appropriate Uniform Commercial Code financing statement, specifically describing the installment land sale contract.

 

 

[17]     Thereafter, Monte Campbell filed a petition for bankruptcy, and Martha Campbell disappeared. Citicorp sought relief from the automatic stay and obtained an order of abandonment. It then initiated foreclosure proceedings, bid in the full amount of the debt still owing under its 1977 note, and obtained a trustee's deed.

 

 

[18]     The Bank continued to collect the monthly payments from the Randal installment land sale contract pursuant to its assignment. Citicorp brought this action seeking a determination that it had a prior right to the proceeds from the installment land sale contract pursuant to its now foreclosed deed of trust and its trustee's deed.

 

 

[19]     The parties stipulated to the above facts for the hearing on their cross-motions for summary judgment. The trial court found that, despite Citicorp's failure to secure a specific interest in the proceeds from the installment land sale contract in its 1977 note and deed of trust, the Bank was on record notice of Citicorp's deed of trust when it entered into its loan agreement with the Campbells in 1980. The court further found that Citicorp's deed of trust secured its interest as to all "rents, issues, and profits" and ruled that the proceeds from the installment land sale contract constituted "rents, issues, and profits" as contemplated by the default provisions of Citicorp's deed of trust. Thus, it concluded, upon foreclosure, Citicorp obtained legal title to the entire 40 acres, subject only to the Randal's equitable interest under the installment land sale contract, and Citicorp was therefore entitled to receive the proceeds from the installment land sale contract, which were not governed by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. The court then entered summary judgment in favor of Citicorp and against the Bank.

 

 

[20]     I.

 

 

[21]     The Bank contends that the trial court erred in its determination that the right to the proceeds from the installment land sale contract did not constitute a security interest governed by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. As authority for this proposition, it relies on § 4-9-102(3), C.R.S., which provides: "[T]he application of this article to a security interest in a secured obligation is not affected by the fact the obligation is itself secured by a transaction or interest to which this article does not apply."

 

 

[22]     Citicorp asserts that the trial court correctly determined that the right to the proceeds from the installment land sale contract did not constitute a security interest governed by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. As authority for this proposition it relies on § 4-9-104(j), C.R.S., which excludes "the creation or transfer of an interest in or lien on real estate, including a lease or rents thereunder" from application of the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

 

[23]     We hold that the right to the proceeds from an installment land sale contract are governed by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

 

[24]     The apparent conflict between these two sections is discussed in § 4-9-102, C.R.S. (Official Comment 4), which Provides the following illustration:

 

 

[25]     "The owner of Blackacre borrows $10,000 from his neighbor, and secures his note by a mortgage on Blackacre. This Article is not applicable to the creation of the real estate mortgage. However, when the mortgagee in turn pledges this note and mortgage to secure his own obligation to X, this Article is applicable to the security interest thus created in the note and the mortgage."

 

 

[26]     See also J. White & R. Summers, Uniform Commercial Code, § 22-6 at 890 (2d Ed. 1980).

 

 

[27]     Security interests in realty paper represent a personal property right to receive payment and are governed by the Uniform Commercial Code. United States v. PS Hotel Corp., 404 F. Supp. 1188 (E.D. Mo.), aff'd, 527 F.2d 500 (8th Cir. 1975), Jackson Co. Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Maduff Mortgage Corp., 608 F. Supp. 588 (D. Colo. 1985), Black v. Sullivan, 48 Cal. App.3d 557, 122 Cal. Rptr. 119 (1975), H. & Val J. Rothschild, Inc. v. Northwestern Nat'l Bank, 309 Minn. 35, 242 N.W.2d 844 (1976), In re Freeborn, 94 Wash.2d 336, 617 P.2d 424 (1980). See also B. Clark, The Law of Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code, § 1.8[10](a)(1980), J. White and R. Summers, Uniform Commercial Code § 22-6 at 890-91 (2d. Ed. 1980).

 

 

[28]     A seller's right to receive payment by virtue of an installment land sale contract is a personal property right. In re Estate of Hills, 222 Kan. 231, 564 P.2d 462 (1977), In re Freeborn, supra. If a mortgagee endorses and delivers a note and deed of trust to secure his own obligation, the holder has a perfected security interest in the instruments, such being personal property. Swofford v. Colorado Nat'l Bank, 628 P.2d 184 (Colo. App. 1981). See also Rocky Mountain Ass'n of Credit Management v. Hessler Mfg. Co., 37 Colo. App. 551, 553 P.2d 840 (1976).

 

 

[29]     Thus, in this case, the Campbells acquired a personal property right to the proceeds from the Randal installment land sale contract at the time of its execution. The fact that the contract concerned the sale and purchase of real property is of no consequence to a proper characterization of the interest in personal property the Campbells acquired. Their assignment to the Bank of this personal property right to receive the contract proceeds was, therefore, governed by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

 

 

[30]     The Bank acquired a secured interest in the proceeds upon the Campbells' delivery of the appropriate documents and execution of the assignment. See Swofford v. Colorado Nat'l Bank, supra, see also Rocky Mountain Ass'n of Credit Management v. Hessler Mfg. Co., supra. Nevertheless, the Bank, to ensure its status, filed the appropriate documents with the Secretary of State and with the Fremont county clerk and recorder. See § 4-9-401, C.R.S. Consequently, we hold that the Bank has a perfected Article 9 security interest in those proceeds.

 

 

[31]     II.

 

 

[32]     We must, however, analyze the respective alleged priorities of Citicorp and the Bank in light of the Campbells' various transactions, since each party's rights originate with the Campbells.

 

 

[33]     The Campbells' first transaction was the entry into a contract for sale of 11.26 acres of their 40 acres to the Randals. After this transaction, the Campbells maintained legal title to the entire 40 acres and passed equitable title to the 11.26 acres to the Randals. See Ulander v. Allen, 37 Colo. App. 279, 544 P.2d 1001 (1976). The Campbells' recording of this contract constituted notice to all the world, since all instruments affecting title to real property are subject to the provisions of the recording statute. Plew v. Colorado Lumber Products, 28 Colo. App. 557, 481 P.2d 127 (1970).

 

 

[34]     Next, the Campbells entered into the loan agreement with Citicorp, executing a note and deed of trust. The deed of trust constituted a lien on the Campbells' legal title to the 40 acres for the benefit of Citicorp. Section 38-35-117, C.R.S. (1982 Repl. Vol. 16A). However, this legal title was subject to the Randals' equitable title in the 11.26 acres.

 

 

[35]     Later, the Campbells entered into the loan agreement with the Bank, assigning the proceeds from the installment land contract to the Bank. When the Bank perfected its security interest in these proceeds, it "stood in the shoes" of the Campbells with regard to the contract proceeds, which were personal property.

 

 

[36]     When Citicorp obtained title at the foreclosure sale, it "stood in the shoes" of the Campbells as to their interest in the property itself and, thus, took legal title to the 40 acres subject to the Randals' equitable title to the 11.26 acres. See Walker Inv. Co. v. Fleming, 79 Colo. 434, 246 P. 207 (1926); see also Century Enterprises, Inc. v. Butler, 526 P.2d 1350 (Colo. App. 1974) (not selected for official publication). However, Citicorp took no interest in the installment land sale contract proceeds because the Campbells had assigned that personal property right to the Bank prior to Citicorp's foreclosure.

 

 

[37]     Consequently, at the time of Citicorp's foreclosure, the Bank had a perfected security interest in the proceeds from the installment land sale contract for the 11.26 acres, and Citicorp had legal title to the 40 acres, subject to the Randals' equitable title to 11.26 acres.

 

 

[38]     III.

 

 

[39]     Nevertheless, Citicorp urges that the trial court correctly determined that the right to "rents, issues and profits" upon the Campbells' default, as recited in the deed of trust, entitles it to the proceeds from the installment land sale contract because the Citicorp deed of trust was recorded before the proceeds were assigned to the Bank. In our view, the trial court's determination in this regard is incorrect.

 

 

[40]     The phrase "rents, issues and profits" refers to the products of the land, the annual rentals, the income derived therefrom, whether in money or in products. People v. Gustafson, 53 Cal. App. 2d 230, 127 P.2d 627 (1942), Equitable Life Insurance Co. v. Brown, 220 Iowa 585, 262 N.W. 124 (1935). See also In re Vedder's Will, 15 N.Y.S. 798, 2 Con. Sur. 548 (1891). On the other hand, the proceeds from an installment land sale contract do not emanate from use of the land, instead, they are payments by the purchaser pursuant to a contract for sale and purchase of the land itself. J. Cribbett, Principles of the Law of Property, Ch. 3, § 2B (1962). Thus, the proceeds from an installment land sale contract, by definition, cannot be "rents, issues and profits" because they bear no relationship to the use of the land. Consequently, the fact that the Citicorp deed of trust predated the assignment to the Bank is irrelevant.

 

 

[41]     At the time the Campbells executed the deed of trust in favor of Citicorp, Citicorp was on record notice of the installment land sale contract. While Citicorp thus had the opportunity to obtain the proceeds from that contract as collateral for its loan, it failed to do so, the sole collateral listed on the Citicorp form is a legal description of the 40 acres. Thus, we conclude that the record contains no evidence that would entitle Citicorp to any interest in the proceeds from the installment land sale contract.

 

 

[42]     The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded to the trial court for entry of summary judgment in favor of the Bank.

 

 

[43]     JUDGE KELLY concurs.

 

 

[44]     JUDGE VAN CISE specially concurs.

 

 

[45]     JUDGE VAN CISE specially concurring.

 

 

[46]     I concur in the result.

 

 

[47]     On June 15, 1977, the Campbells, as sellers, entered into the contract with the Randals as purchasers, for sale of 11.26 acres out of their 40 acre tract. At that time, the Randals acquired equitable title to the 11.26 acres, see Ulander v. Allen, 37 Colo. App. 279, 544 P.2d 1001 (1976), and the Campbells retained legal title to the entire 40 acres subject to the liens of the first and second deeds of trust as to the 40 acres and subject to the Randals' newly acquired equitable title to the smaller tract.

 

 

[48]     A few days later, a new second deed of trust was executed as to the entire 40 acres to secure a new loan by Citicorp, and the former second deed of trust was released. This new second trust deed was junior to the preexisting first trust deed and was subject to the Randals' equitable title to the 11.26 acres based on their contract.

 

 

[49]     Had the Campbells sold their interest in the 40 acres to Citicorp, without specifically retaining the right to the proceeds of sale from the Randals, Citicorp would have stood in the shoes of the Campbells with respect to the contract. It would have had "the rights as well as the obligations -- the rights to receive the balance of the purchase price . . . and the obligations to deliver possession and to convey title on payment of the purchase price." Century Enterprises v. Butler, 526 P.2d 1350 (Colo. App. 1974) (not selected for official publication). See also Walker Inv. Co. v. Fleming, 79 Colo. 434, 246 P. 207 (1926), and Johnson v. Perry, 20 Wash. App. 696, 582 P.2d 886 (1978).

 

 

[50]     However, this was a loan and not a sale transaction, and the deed of trust referred only to the land and did not specifically refer to the contract either as included in the property securing the loan or as an encumbrance. And, since a deed of trust is a lien and not a conveyance, regardless of its terms, § 38-35-117, C.R.S. (1982 Repl. Vol. 16A), the Campbells did not convey the legal title. They still owned it when they assigned to the Bank the right to receive the proceeds of the sale contract.

 

 

 

[51]     The Campbells were not divested of the legal title until Citicorp received a public trustee's deed to the 40 acres following foreclosure and sale. At that time, standing in the shoes of the Campbells, Citicorp acquired legal title subject to the lien of the first trust deed and the obligations under the Randal contract, with Citicorp's rights under the contract being limited to the right to terminate on default in compliance with the terms of the contract, and a right to proceeds junior to the lien of the Bank on those proceeds.

 

 

[52]     Therefore, the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to Citicorp and in denying summary judgment to the Bank as to the right to the installment land contract proceeds.

 

 

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#15627 From: mobinem@...
Date: Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:21 pm
Subject: UCC and RE
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UCC does pertain to Real Estate transactions, in Arizona it is taught in RE law class. I know because I passed the class. The holder in due course as opposed to the Holder for Value argument seems to be a very strong contention. If you read both definitions in Black's Law and remember that the UCC 3 was revised to remove the Sum Certain clause you will find it to be applicable to almost every mortgage and possibly all mortgages that have been sold. Regardless, the unlawful act of a bank lending credit instead of money is always valid. It would require the bank to show a "risk" and a transfer of funds not just an electronic transfer issued due in part to the document.
Below is a case in point. The appeals court remanded under UCC 3 since the case involved a transaction completed BEFORE the UCC 3 revision. Thusly, it would not be a precedent for a current issue. However, the Holder in due course is still applicable today. It is the foundation of the Deutsche Bank losses, all 41 and counting, in Ohio. 41 in a row is a good sign.

NOTICE: This opinion is subject to motions for rehearing under Rule 22 as well as formal revision before publication in the New Hampshire Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Clerk/Reporter, Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Supreme Court Building, Concord, New Hampshire 03301, of any errors in order that corrections may be made before the opinion goes to press. Opinions are available on the Internet by 9:00 a.m. on the morning of their release. The direct address of the court's home page is: http://www.state.nh.us/courts/supreme.htm

 

THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

___________________________

 

Hillsborough-southern judicial district

No. 97-027

 

WILLIAM C. BARNSLEY

v.

EMPIRE MORTGAGE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP V

March 31, 1998

 

William E. Aivalikles, of Nashua, by brief and orally, for the plaintiff.

Law Offices of John L. Allen & Associates, P.C. of Manchester (Richard M. Husband on the brief and orally), for the defendant.

 

HORTON, J. The plaintiff, William C. Barnsley, appeals the Superior Court's (Hollman, J.) grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant, Empire Mortgage Limited Partnership V. We reverse and remand.

On November 8, 1988, the plaintiff executed a commercial real estate promissory note and mortgage for $180,000 with the Hillsborough Bank and Trust Company (bank), secured by four building lots located in Temple and one lot located in New Ipswich. The note provided for monthly interest payments "at a rate equal to the base lending rate of Hillsborough Bank & Trust Company, Inc., plus Four (4.0%) percent, adjusted daily."

The bank foreclosed on three lots by June 1991. In August 1991, the plaintiff learned of foreclosure proceedings scheduled for September 1991 on the last two lots, which were subsequently cancelled. Around August 30, 1991, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) assumed the obligations of the then-failed bank and distributed many of the bank's assets, not including the subject note, to Peterborough Savings Bank. On June 25, 1995, the FDIC, as receiver for the bank, assigned the Barnsley mortgage to the defendant.

In 1996, the defendant notified the plaintiff of plans to foreclose the mortgage on the last two lots on May 23, alleging an outstanding balance due on the $180,000 promissory note. In May 1996, the plaintiff filed an ex parte bill in equity to enjoin the foreclosure proceedings. The plaintiff alleges that through the foreclosure sales, and pursuant to an agreement dated August 10, 1988, the promissory note has been paid. The plaintiff has not provided a copy of this agreement to this court on appeal. See Sup. Ct. R. 13(3). The defendant alleges that after the bank paid the plaintiff's other debts, no funds were available to satisfy the mortgage. The defendant also contends that the plaintiff offered no evidence to the contrary. Finding the note to be negotiable, and the defendant to be a holder in due course, the trial court did not consider the merits of Barnsley's arguments. The defendant moved for summary judgment. After a hearing, the superior court granted the plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the foreclosure proceedings. In November 1996, however, the court granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff appeals.

On appeal, the plaintiff argues: (1) because the note includes a variable interest rate, it is not for a sum certain and is therefore non-negotiable; (2) because the note is non-negotiable, the defendant is not a holder in due course and is therefore a holder subject to the plaintiff's defense of payment; and (3) the mortgage deed was void since the plaintiff had paid the note in full.

"When reviewing a motion for summary judgment, the court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion and take all reasonable inferences from the evidence in that party's favor." High Country Assocs. v. New Hampshire Ins. Co., 139 N.H. 39, 41, 648 A.2d 474, 476 (1994) (citation omitted). We find that the trial court erred as a matter of law in granting summary judgment to the defendant.

Although the defendant and the trial court considered recent amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), see RSA 382-A:3-101 et seq. (1994), we apply only the 1961 version of the UCC since it governed negotiable instruments at the time of the execution of the promissory note in question. See N.H. CONST. pt. I, art. 23.

To be negotiable, a note must be for a "sum certain." Former RSA 382-A:3-106(1) (1961) (amended and recodified 1994) provided:

The sum payable is a sum certain even though it is to be paid

(a) with stated interest or by stated installments; or

(b) with stated different rates of interest before and after default or a specified date; or

(c) with a stated discount or addition if paid before or after the date fixed for payment; or

(d) with exchange or less exchange, whether at a fixed rate or at the current rate; or

(e) with costs of collection or an attorney's fee or both upon default.

Official Comment 1 further provided:

It is sufficient that at any time of payment the holder is able to determine the amount then payable from the instrument itself with any necessary computation. . . . The computation must be one which can be made from the instrument itself without reference to any outside source, and this section does not make negotiable a note payable with interest "at the current rate."

Former RSA 382-A:3-106 Official Comment 1.

The negotiability of a variable interest rate note under the 1961 UCC is a question of first impression. Since a primary purpose of the UCC is "to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions," RSA 382-A:1-102(1)(c) (1961), we look to other jurisdictions for guidance. Courts grappling with the negotiability of variable interest rate notes have been divided. See 5A R. Anderson, Uniform Commercial Code § 3-106:9, at 204 (3d ed. 1994); see generally Annotation, Negotiability of Instruments Providing for Variable Rate of Interest Under UCC § 3-106, 69 A.L.R. 4th 1127 (1989). Some courts found notes containing variable interest rates to be for a sum certain and, therefore, negotiable. See 5A R. Anderson, supra § 3-106:9, at 204. Others, however, strictly rejected any variable rate that could not be calculated from the four corners of the document. See id. § 3-106:10, at 206.

We adopt the view established in Centerre Bank of Branson v. Campbell, 744 S.W.2d 490 (Mo. Ct. App. 1988). In Campbell, the interest rate in the note could vary based on the bank rate charged to the maker. Id. at 492. The note provided that "[i]nterest may vary with bank rates charged to Strand Investment Company." Id. In deciding that the note was not negotiable, the Campbell court reasoned that the "holder of the note would have to investigate [the interest charges] before determining the amount due on the note at any time of payment." Id. at 498.

In the present case, the note establishes the rate based on the "base lending rate" of the bank. To determine interest due on the note, the holder must inquire to identify the "base rate." Thus, as drafted, this note does not contain all instructions necessary for the holder to identify the actual variable rate. To determine the amount due on the note at any given time, the holder must ask the bank its "base lending rate." We hold that under former RSA 382-A:3-106, when the note includes a variable interest rate which cannot be ascertained through a formula contained within the document, the note is not for a sum certain. We decline to decide whether a variable rate of interest tied to objectively ascertainable and widely disseminated rates (e.g., prime rate, federal funds discount rate, London Interbank Offer Rate, etc.) prevent notes under the 1961 UCC from being negotiable. Compare Klehm v. Grecian Chalet, Ltd., 518 N.E.2d 187, 192 (Ill. App. Ct. 1987) with Taylor v. Roeder, 360 S.E.2d 191, 194 (Va. 1987). Subsequent legislative enactment further persuades us that notes under the former UCC are not negotiable. Under the revised Article 3, adopted in 1994, instruments with variable interest rates are specifically made negotiable. RSA 382-A:3-104(a), :3-112(b) (1994); see Cowan v. Tyrolean Ski Area, Inc., 127 N.H. 397, 403, 506 A.2d 690, 694 (1985).

The plaintiff next argues that the defendant is not a holder in due course. We agree. Because the note was not for a sum certain, the note cannot be a negotiable instrument. RSA 382-A:3-106 (1961) (amended and recodified 1994). Because the plaintiff's note was not negotiable, the FDIC could not become a holder in due course. When the FDIC takes over a failed savings institution, "[t]he [FDIC] shall, as conservator or receiver, and by operation of law, succeed to . . . all rights, titles, powers, and privileges of the insured depository institution . . . ." 12 U.S.C. § 1821(d)(2)(A)(i) (1994). Further, the FDIC's rights to the bank's assets are provided for under state law, and are not supplemented by federal law. See O'Melveny & Meyers v. FDIC, 512 U.S. 79, 86 (1994). Consequently, as we explained, the FDIC could only be a holder, subject to the claims and defenses of the payee. See RSA 382-A:3-306 (1961) (amended and recodified 1994). Regardless of how the defendant acquired the note from the FDIC, it is subject to the plaintiff's claims and defenses.

Finding that the defendant was a holder in due course, the trial court did not consider evidence on the plaintiff's claim of payment. We reverse and remand to determine whether the plaintiff satisfied the note through the alleged payments and application of foreclosure proceeds. See RSA 479:6 (1992); RSA 382-A:3-603(1) (1961) (amended and recodified 1994). The UCC and foreclosure law both consider payments as a discharge of liability, and thus, their respective provisions are not in conflict. We need not decide which statute controls the foreclosure. Under the UCC and our mortgage law, liability on the note and mortgage has been satisfied to the extent that any payment has been made. On remand, the plaintiff may assert any defenses against the defendant's demand for payment and for foreclosure. See 4 R. Powell & P. Rohan, Powell on Real Property § 37.33, at 37-226 to 37-239 (1997).

 

Reversed and remanded.

All concurred.

 

 



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#15628 From: William Doell <wellnessdoc33@...>
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Dear John-Chester,

You must be less than 65 years old.  The MONSTER has
it rigged that you cannot get health insurance, after
age 65, unless you accept Social Security and
Medicare.  The SYSTEM forces you to become a 14th
amendment citizen.

You may or may not know this, but Social Security was
imported from Germany.  65 years eligibility was set
because most people died before they reached 50!

This is a very believeable argument, but there is
probably a more restrictive "mark" available from the
United Nations and Satan.

Thank YOU for your continued input.

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Otto von Bismarck
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Germany became the first nation in the world to adopt an old-age social insurance program in 1889, designed by Germany's Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. The idea was first put forward, at Bismarck's behest, in 1881 by Germany's Emperor, William the First, in a ground-breaking letter to the German Parliament. William wrote: ". . .those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state."
Bismarck was motivated to introduce social insurance in Germany both in order to promote the well-being of workers in order to keep the German economy operating at maximum efficiency, and to stave-off calls for more radical socialist alternatives. Despite his impeccable right-wing credentials, Bismarck would be called a socialist for introducing these programs, as would President Roosevelt 70 years later. In his own speech to the Reichstag during the 1881 debates, Bismarck would reply: "Call it socialism or whatever you like. It is the same to me."
The German system provided contributory retirement benefits and disability benefits as well. Participation was mandatory and contributions were taken from the employee, the employer and the government. Coupled with the workers' compensation program established in 1884 and the "sickness" insurance enacted the year before, this gave the Germans a comprehensive system of income security based on social insurance principles. (They would add unemployment insurance in 1927, making their system complete.)
One persistent myth about the German program is that it adopted age 65 as the standard retirement age because that was Bismarck's age. This myth is important because Germany was one of the models America looked to in designing its own Social Security plan; and the myth is that America adopted age 65 as the age for retirement benefits because this was the age adopted by Germany when they created their program. In fact, Germany initially set age 70 as the retirement age (and Bismarck himself was 74 at the time) and it was not until 27 years later (in 1916) that the age was lowered to 65. By that time, Bismarck had been dead for 18 years.
 



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Dear John-Chester,

You must be less than 65 years old. The MONSTER has
it rigged that you cannot get health insurance, after
age 65, unless you accept Social Security and
Medicare. The SYSTEM forces you to become a 14th
amendment citizen.

You may or may not know this, but Social Security was
imported from Germany. 65 years eligibility was set
because most people died before they reached 50!

This is a very believeable argument, but there is
probably a more restrictive "mark" available from the
United Nations and Satan.

Thank YOU for your continued input.

Dr. William Doell
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#15630 From: "Legalbear" <bear@...>
Date: Tue Dec 4, 2007 10:38 pm
Subject: 5 USC § 702 hearings & your Ind.MasterFile; Passports, the "Right to Travel",
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Look at these quotes I found respecting passports. I found this when I was doing research on administrative determinations of status.

 

[28]     The Passport Act does not in so many words confer upon the Secretary a power to revoke a passport. Nor, for that matter, does it expressly authorize denials of passport applications.*fn19 Neither, however, does any statute expressly limit those powers. It is beyond dispute that the Secretary has the power to deny a passport for reasons not specified in the statutes. For example, in Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958), the Court recognized congressional acquiescence in Executive policies of refusing passports to applicants "participating in illegal conduct, trying to escape the toils of the law, promoting passport frauds, or otherwise engaging in conduct which would violate the laws of the United States." Id., at 127. In Zemel, the Court held that "the weightiest considerations of national security" authorized the Secretary to restrict travel to Cuba at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. 381 U.S., at 16. Agee concedes that if the Secretary may deny a passport application for a certain reason, he may revoke a passport on the same ground.*fn20 Haig v. Agee, 1981.SCT.42674 <http://www.versuslaw.com> ¶ 28; 453 U.S. 280 (1981).

 

[33]     Matters intimately related to foreign policy and national security are rarely proper subjects for judicial intervention. In Harisiades v. Shaughnessy, 342 U.S. 580 (1952), the Court observed that matters relating "to the conduct of foreign relations . . . are so exclusively entrusted to the political branches of government as to be largely immune from judicial inquiry or interference." Id., at 589; accord, Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman S.S. Corp., 333 U.S. 103, 111 (1948). Haig v. Agee, 1981.SCT.42674 <http://www.versuslaw.com> ¶ 33; 453 U.S. 280 (1981).

 

[36]     A passport is, in a sense, a letter of introduction in which the issuing sovereign vouches for the bearer and requests other sovereigns to aid the bearer. 3 G. Hackworth, Digest of International Law § 268, p. 499 (1942). Very early, the Court observed:

 

[37]     "[A passport] is a document, which, from its nature and object, is addressed to foreign powers; purporting only to be a request, that the bearer of it may pass safely and freely; and is to be considered rather in the character of a political document, by which the bearer is recognized, in foreign countries, as an American citizen; and which, by usage and the law of nations, is received as evidence of the fact." Urtetiqui v. D'Arcy, 9 Pet. 692, 698 (1835).

 

[38]     With the enactment of travel control legislation making a passport generally a requirement for travel abroad,*fn22 a passport took on certain added characteristics. Most important for present purposes, the only means by which an American can lawfully leave the country or return to it -- absent a Presidentially granted exception -- is with a passport. See 8 U. S. C. § 1185 (b) (1976 ed., Supp. IV). As a travel control document, a passport is both proof of identity and proof of allegiance to the United States. Even under a travel control statute, however, a passport remains in a sense a document by which the Government vouches for the bearer and for his conduct.

 

[39]     The history of passport controls since the earliest days of the Republic shows congressional recognition of Executive authority to withhold passports on the basis of substantial reasons of national security and foreign policy. Prior to 1856, when there was no statute on the subject, the common perception was that the issuance of a passport was committed to the sole discretion of the Executive and that the Executive would exercise this power in the interests of the national security and foreign policy of the United States.*fn23 This derived from the generally accepted view that foreign policy was the province and responsibility of the Executive.*fn24 From the outset, Congress endorsed not only the underlying premise of Executive authority in the areas of foreign policy and national security, but also its specific application to the subject of passports. Early Congresses enacted statutes expressly recognizing the Executive authority with respect to passports.*fn25

 

[40]     The first Passport Act, adopted in 1856, provided that the Secretary of State "shall be authorized to grant and issue passports . . . under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf of the United States . . . ." § 23, 11 Stat. 60.*fn26 This broad and permissive language worked no change in the power of the Executive to issue passports; nor was it intended to do so. The Act was passed to centralize passport authority in the Federal Government*fn27 and specifically in the Secretary of State.*fn28 In all other respects, the 1856 Act [41] "merely confirmed an authority already possessed and exercised by the Secretary of State. This authority was ancillary to his broader authority to protect American citizens in foreign countries and was necessarily incident to his general authority to conduct the foreign affairs of the United States under the Chief Executive." Senate Committee on Government Operations, Reorganization of the Passport Functions of the Department of State, 86th Cong., 2d Sess., 13 (Comm. Print 1960).

 

[42]     The President and the Secretary of State consistently construed the 1856 Act to preserve their authority to withhold passports on national security and foreign policy grounds. Thus, as an emergency measure in 1861, the Secretary issued orders prohibiting persons from going abroad or entering the country without passports; denying passports to citizens who were subject to military service unless they were bonded; and absolutely denying passports to persons "on errands hostile and injurious to the peace of the country and dangerous to the Union." 3 J. Moore, A Digest of International Law 920 (1906); U.S. Dept. of State, The American Passport 49-54 (1898).*fn29 An 1869 opinion of Attorney General Hoar held that the granting of a passport was not "obligatory in any case." 13 Op. Atty. Gen. 89, 92. This was elaborated in 1901 in an opinion of Attorney General Knox, in which he stated:

 

[43]     "Substantial reasons exist for the use by Congress of the word 'may' in connection with authority to issue passports. Circumstances are conceivable which would make it most inexpedient for the public interests for this country to grant a passport to a citizen of the United States." 23 Op. Atty. Gen. 509, 511.

 

[44]     In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt promulgated a rule providing that "[the] Secretary of State has the right in his discretion to refuse to issue a passport, and will exercise this right towards anyone who, he has reason to believe, desires a passport to further an unlawful or improper purpose."*fn30 Subsequent Executive Orders issued between 1907 and 1917 cast no doubt on this position.*fn31 This policy was enforced in peacetime years to deny passports to citizens whose conduct abroad was "likely to embarrass the United States"*fn32 or who were "disturbing, or endeavoring to disturb, the relations of this country with the representatives of foreign countries."*fn33

 

[45]     By enactment of the first travel control statute in 1918,*fn34 Congress made clear its expectation that the Executive would curtail or prevent international travel by American citizens if it was contrary to the national security. The legislative history reveals that the principal reason for the 1918 statute was fear that "renegade Americans" would travel abroad and engage in "transference of important military information" to persons not entitled to it.*fn35 The 1918 statute left the power to make exceptions exclusively in the hands of the Executive, without articulating specific standards. Unless the Secretary had power to apply national security criteria in passport decisions, the purpose of the Travel Control Act would plainly have been frustrated.

 

[46]     Against this background, and while the 1918 provisions were still in effect, Congress enacted the Passport Act of 1926. The legislative history of the statute is sparse. However, Congress used language which is identical in pertinent part to that in the 1856 statute (supra, at 294), as amended,*fn36 and the legislative history clearly shows congressional awareness of the Executive policy.*fn37 There is no evidence of any intent to repudiate the longstanding administrative construction.*fn38 Absent such evidence, we conclude that Congress, in, adopted the longstanding administrative construction of the 1856 statute. See Lorillard v. Pons, 434 U.S. 575, 580-581 (1978).

 

[47]     The Executive construed the 1926 Act to work no change in prior practice and specifically interpreted it to authorize denial of a passport on grounds of national security or foreign policy. Indeed, by an unbroken line of Executive Orders,*fn39 regulations,*fn40 instructions to consular officials,*fn41 and notices to passport holders,*fn42 the President and the Department of State left no doubt that likelihood of damage to national security or foreign policy of the United States was the single most important criterion in passport decisions. The regulations are instructive. The 1952 version authorized denial of passports to citizens engaged in activities which would violate laws designed to protect the security of the United States "[in] order to promote the national interest by assuring that the conduct of foreign relations shall be free from unlawful interference." 17 Fed. Reg. 8013 (1952). The 1956 amendment to this regulation provided that a passport should be denied to any person whose [48]  "activities abroad would: (a) Violate the laws of the United States; (b) be prejudicial to the orderly conduct of foreign relations; or (c) otherwise be prejudicial to the interests of the United States." 22 CFR § 51.136 (1958). Haig v. Agee, 1981.SCT.42674 <http://www.versuslaw.com> ¶¶ 36-47; 453 U.S. 280 (1981).

 

[53]     Zemel recognized that congressional acquiescence may sometimes be found from nothing more than silence in the face of an administrative policy. 381 U.S., at 11; see Udall v. Tallman, 380 U.S. 1, 16-18 (1965); Norwegian Nitrogen Co. v. United States, 288 U.S. 294, 313 (1933); Costanzo v. Tillinghast, 287 U.S. 341, 345 (1932). Here, however, the inference of congressional approval "is supported by more than mere congressional inaction." Zemel, 381 U.S., at 11-12. Twelve years after the promulgation of the regulations at issue and 22 years after promulgation of the similar 1956 regulation, Congress enacted the statute making it unlawful to travel abroad without a passport even in peacetime. 8 U. S. C. § 1185(b) (1976 ed., Supp. IV).*fn47 Simultaneously, Congress amended the Passport Act of 1926 to provide that "[unless] authorized by law," in the absence of war, armed hostilities, or imminent danger to travelers, a passport may not be geographically restricted.*fn48 Title 8 U. S. C. § 1185(b) (1976 ed., Supp. IV) must be read in pari materia with the Passport Act. Zemel, supra, at 11-12; see 2A C. Sands, Sutherland on Statutory Construction § 51.03, p. 299 (4th ed. 1973); cf. Erlenbaugh v. United States, 409 U.S. 239, 243-244 (1972).*fn49 Haig v. Agee, 1981.SCT.42674 <http://www.versuslaw.com> ¶¶ 53; 453 U.S. 280 (1981).

 

However, if there were no occasions -- or few -- to call the Secretary's authority into play, the absence of frequent instances of enforcement is wholly irrelevant. The exercise of a power emerges only in relation to a factual situation, and the continued validity of the power is not diluted simply because there is no need to use it. Haig v. Agee, 1981.SCT.42674 <http://www.versuslaw.com> ¶¶ 57; 453 U.S. 280 (1981).

 

(This above quote has reference to us. Just because as of this date we have rarely exercised our power to correct government officials by way of criminal prosecutions, does not mean “the continued validity of the power is not diluted simply because there is no need to use it.”)

 

[69]     Revocation of a passport undeniably curtails travel, but the freedom to travel abroad with a "letter of introduction" in the form of a passport issued by the sovereign is subordinate to national security and foreign policy considerations; as such, it is subject to reasonable governmental regulation. The Court has made it plain that the freedom to travel outside the United States must be distinguished from the right to travel within the United States. This was underscored in Califano v. Aznavorian, 439 U.S. 170, 176 (1978):

 

[70]     "Aznavorian urges that the freedom of international travel is basically equivalent to the constitutional right to interstate travel, recognized by this Court for over 100 years. Edwards v. California, 314 U.S. 160; Twining v. New Jersey, 211 U.S. 78, 97; Williams v. Fears, 179 U.S. 270,274; consular and other officials. Secrecy in respect of information gathered by them may be highly necessary, and the premature disclosure of it productive of harmful results." 299 U.S., at 320.

 

[71]     Accord, Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman S.S. Corp., 333 U.S., at 111; The Federalist No. 64, pp. 392-393 (Mentor ed. 1961). Haig v. Agee, 1981.SCT.42674 <http://www.versuslaw.com> ¶¶ 69-71; 453 U.S. 280 (1981).

 

"[While] the Constitution protects against invasions of individual rights, it is not a suicide pact." Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U.S. 144, 160 (1963). The Constitution's due process guarantees call for no more than what has been accorded here: a statement of reasons and an opportunity for a prompt postrevocation hearing.*fn62  Haig v. Agee, 1981.SCT.42674 <http://www.versuslaw.com> ¶¶ 75; 453 U.S. 280 (1981).

 

(This last statement has application to the so called “income tax”. Their determination that you sell guns or drugs in the Virgin Islands, hidden away in your Individual Master File, with no opportunity for a hearing on the matter violates Due Process because that is a determination that affects your rights and duties.)

 

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#15631 From: "rebel382003" <liberty@...>
Date: Wed Dec 5, 2007 4:01 pm
Subject: 26 USC # 7203---MOTION TO SET ASIDE VERDICT
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MOTION TO SET ASIDE THE VERDICT FOR FAILURE TO CHARGE AN OFFENSE

The Defendant, _____________________, by and through counsel,
respectfully Moves the court pursuant to FRCrP 12(b)(2) to set aside
the Verdict for failure of the Information to charge an offense.

It is established that an indictment for a tax issue must identify
a "known legal duty" to be valid.   United States v. Pomponio, 429
US 10; Cheek v US, 498 US 192. The requirement of a known legal duty
is jurisdictional that can never be waived. Freytag v CIR, 501 US
868, 896; Bowen v Johnston, 306 US 19, 24; Machibroda v US, 368 US
487; Kaufman v US, 394 US 217, 222.    Legal process that does not
identify a crime is void from its inception .  Moore v Dempsey, 261
US 86; Patton v US, 281 US 276.   "It is well settled that (even)
the entry of a guilty plea does not act as a waiver of
jurisdictional defects such as an indictment's failure to charge an
offense and the defendant may raise such failure at ANY time." US v
White, 258 F3d 374, 379 (5th Cir 2001). An information has no less
requirement for the averment of a legal duty to have been violated
than does an indictment; a violation of a law is indispensable for
an accusation.

It is additionally established that the defendant has no necessity
to discredit potential inferences or presumptions of
responsibility.  Due Process requires the plaintiff in a criminal
proceeding to carry the burden of proof of a valid established
authority duly legislated, succinctly and clearly averred in the
pleading, and submitted to contestation.
"Convictions generally have been sustained as long as the proof upon
which they are based corresponds to an offense that was clearly set
out in the indictment… Deprivation of such a basic right (to be
tried only on charges presented in an indictment) is far too serious
to be treated as nothing more than a variance and then dismissed as
harmless error." US v Miller, 471 US 130, 136, 140 (1985); Russell v
US, 369 US 749, 770-771;
Cole v Arkansas, 333 US 196; Speiser v Randall, 357 US 513, 529;
First Unitarian Church v Los Angeles, 357 US 545.

And where in the instant Information have the requirements of Due
Process to identify an offense been manifested ???

The Plaintiff avers in each of the four courts that the
defendant "was required by Title 26, United States Code, and by
regulations made under the authority thereof, to make a federal
income tax return."  This declaration is multiple self-serving
conclusions of law that has no standing.  Fernandez-Montes v Allied
Pilots Ass'n, 987 F2d 278, 284 (5th. Cir. 1993); Ryan v Scoggin, 245
F2d 54; Blackburn v Fisk Univ, 443 F2d 121; Pauling v McElroy, 278
F2d 252; Columbia v Tatum, 58 F3d 1101; Wag-Aero v US, 837 FSup
1479, affm. 35 F3d 569.    Moreover, any regulation, even if
identified, does not establish a legal requirement.

Each count additionally alludes to a "minimum filing requirement"
which is another self-serving conclusion of law. It has no
standing.  If such a requirement exists, Due Process requires the
plaintiff to aver the statutory requirement and submit it to
contestation with the plaintiff carrying the burden of proof. A
defendant has no necessity to assume and defend from a nebulous,
unidentified requirement.

The paragraph continues to again claim the defendant failed to file
a return "as required by such law and such regulation."  Again, this
is a legal conclusion that has no standing.  Or is this a reference
to the hanging phrase that is projected to constitute a subsequent
paragraph: "In violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section
7203."  ?

Is the plaintiff attempting to infer Section 7203 establishes a
legal requirement for the defendant to file a return for an income
tax ?  Assuming this is what the plaintiff intends, such an
conclusion cannot be supported. Section 7203 does not mention an
income tax, a filing requirement, or even who---upon what conditions-
-- might be required to perform such an act. The courts have further
repeatedly evidenced a conclusion of such a requirement would be
impossible.

In reviewing whether 26 USC §7207  could be applicable to the
offense at bar, the Supreme Court declared, upon review of the 1954
Congressional Record legislation of Part I of Chapter 75: "Congress
specifically stated that it placed all these provisions (26 USC
§7201 through §7217) in the same part of the Code because it wished
them to apply to taxes generally, including income taxes."  Sansone
v United States, 380 US 343, 348 citations omitted.  By the words of
the Supreme Court and Congress itself, a citation of Part I of
Chapter 75 does not identify a specific tax the defendant can
violate.  The citation in the instant information therefore cannot
identify a "known legal duty" for any tax.

Concurring evidence abounds in case law.

In Grosso v US, 390 US 62, the Supreme Court addressed an issue of
willful failure to pay a wagering tax (IRC §4401) and willful
failure to pay a gambler's occupational license tax (IRC §4411).
Willful failure is not mentioned in either of the two cited
statutes. Willful failure came from §7203.  "Those LIABLE for
payment of that tax are REQUIRED to submit each month Internal
Revenue Service Form 730 . . . failure to pay the excise tax and to
FILE A RETURN are separately punishable under 26 USC §7203." id 65,
emphasis added.  Notice should be taken that the known legal duties
of those "required, liable" and the requirement to "file a return"
are identified within Chapter 35 (§4401 to §4424) while punishment
is established by §7203.

Marchetti v United States, 390 US 39,  also involved an offense
punishable by §7203 for violations of gambling tax statutes.  "The
second indictment included two counts: the first alleged a willful
failure to pay the occupational tax, and the second a willful
failure to register, as required by 26 U.S.C. 4412, before engaging
in the business of accepting wagers."   id, 40-41.  Note that the
statutory requirements of a "known legal duty" are again "required"
within the gambling tax statutes.  Willful failure as a conditional
requirement for imposition of a specific punishment comes from §7203.

In Ingram v US, 360 US 672, the Supreme Court reviewed utilization
of §7201 and §7203 to punish violation of §4401, §4411, and §4421
wagering tax provisions. id, Footnote #1. The court
declared:  "Liability for the federal tax is imposed by §4401 and
4411 of the IRC…" id 675. The "known legal duty" was within Chapter
35; it was not in Chapter 75.

Punishment via §§7201, 7203, and 7206 for violations relating to
wagering taxes was also imposed in US v Sheer, 278 F2d 67; Burks v
US, 287 F2d 117;  US v Shaffer, 291 F2d 689; US v Minker, 312 F2d
632; Bohn v US, 260 F2d 773;  US v Claney, 276 F2d 617; US v
Stoffey, 279 F2d 924; Application of Leahy, 298 F2d 233; George v
US, 346 F2d 137; US v DiPrimio, 209 FSup 137; US v Nicholas, 224
FSup 310.

Liquor law violations were punished by §7201, §7203 or §7206 in
prosecutions for untaxed distilled spirits in Wilson v US, 320 F2d
493; US v Cook, 412 F2d 293; US v One Ford, 304 F2d 419; US v
Champion, 387 F2d 561; Benefield v US, 370 F2d 912; US v Davis, 369
F2d 775; US v Goss, 353 F2d 671; Hyche v US, 286 F2d 248; Ingram v
US, 241 F2d 708; Dowling v US, 249 F2d 746; Brown v US, 253 F2d 587;
West v US, 259 F2d 868;  O'Neal v US, 273 F2d 549; Tucker v US, 279
F2d 62; King v US, 282 F2d 398; Monnette v US, 299 F2d 847;
Blumenfield v US, 306 F2d 892;  US v Denton, 307 F2d 336; US v One
Pontiac, 308 F2d 893; US v Lemons, 309 F2d 168; US v Ivey, 310 F2d
229; Davis v US, 385 F2d 919; US v Rector, 488 F2d 1079.  The "known
legal duties" are found in Chapter 51. Chapter 75 does not identify
that responsibility.

§7201, §7203, or §7206  were used to punish the failure to file
excise tax returns on wagers required by §4401 and §4411 in Tyler v
US, 397 F2d 565; US v Stavros, 597 F2d 108; Edwards v US, 321 F2d
324; US v Sams, 340 F2d 1014;  Scaglione v US, 396 F2d 219; US v
Magliano, 336 F2d 817; Rutherford v US, 264 F2d 180; US v Gaydos,
310 F2d 883; US v Sette, 334 F2d 267; US v Simon, 241 F2d 308; Clay
v US, 246 F2d 298; Merritt v US, 248 F2d 19;  Field v US, 263 758;
Barnhill v US, 279 F2d 105; Rosen v US, 293 F2d 938; US v Woodson,
303 F2d 49; US v Nicholson, 303 F2d 330; US v Brooks, 303 F2d 851;
US v Marchointe, 309 F2d 435;  US v Whiting, 311 F2d 191; US v
Viale, 312 F2d 595; US v Grossman, 315 F2d 94; US v Wilson, 214 FSup
629.   The "known legal duties" are found in Chapter 35.  Punishment
was imposed as authorized by  Chapter 75.

Violations of the required filing of race track forms could have
been charged with a misdemeanor under §7203 or a felony under §7206
according to the court in US v LaHaye, 548 F2d 474. Similar gambling
violations used the same punishments in US v McGee, 572 F2d 1097; US
v Snyder, 549 F2d 171; US v Dumaine, 493 F2d 1257; US v Kessler, 449
F2d 1315; US v Haimowitx, 404 F2d 38; US v Willoz, 449 F2d 1321; US
v Salerno, 330 FSup 1401.

A violation of §4461 coin operated gaming devices statute was
punished by §7203 in US v Menk, 260 FSup 784. The "known legal duty"
is found in Chapter 36.

Violations of corporate/employment tax requirements resulted in
punishment by §7201, §7202, §7203 or §7210 in Van Allen Co, v US,
422 US 617; Gundlach v US, 262 F2d 72; US v  Mollet, 290 F2d 273; US
v Stevedores, 310 F2d 47; Botta v Scanlon, 314 F2d 392; Ryan v US,
314 F2d 306; US v Becker, 259 F2d 869; US v Rothbart, 723 F2d 752.

Tax preparer violations were punished by §§ 7201, 7203, and 7206 in
US v Mesheski, 286 F2d 345, and US v Barnes, 313 F2d 325.

A sugar tax violation was punished by §7203 in Call v US, 265 F2d
167.
An estate tax violation was punished by §7207 in US v Alker, 254 F2d
292.
A marijuana tax violation was punished by §7206 in US v Alvere, 470
F2d 981.
A violation of concealing property from levy was punished by §7206
in US v Bergman, 306 F2d 653.

This list is not exhaustive. Its purpose is to merely show that the
provisions of Chapter 75, and specifically §7203,  have been
utilized for the prosecution of a multitude of Title 26 offenses
other than what the prosecution would have this court assume and
apply. The "known legal duties" for the offenses within the above
list have not been contained within Chapter 75, nor can Chapter 75
be used to identify any legal duties specifically for an income
tax.  A conclusion that Chapter 75 identifies the required "known
legal duty" for an income tax, as contended by the prosecution, is
totally incompatible with the above case law.

It is a "well-settled rule that the citizen is exempt from taxation
unless the same is imposed by CLEAR AND UNEQUIVOCABLE  language, and
that where the construction of a tax law is doubtful, the doubt is
to be resolved in favor of those upon whom the tax is sought to be
laid..." Spreckles Sugar v McClain, 192 US 397 emphasis added.   And
again: "The (revenue) statute was evidently drawn with care. Its
language is plain and unambiguous. What the government asks is not a
construction of a statute, but, in effect, an enlargement of it by
the court, so that what was omitted, presumably by inadvertence, may
be included within its scope. To supply omissions transcends the
judicial function."  Iselin v U.S., 270 US 245, 250-251; West
Virginia University Hospital v Casey, 499 US 83, 101 (1991). In the
instant case, the prosecution does not want the court to merely
construct an ambiguous statute in a favorable manner or enlarge a
statute that might be overly restrictive, but wants the court to
conjure and assume numerous statutes in their entirety for multiple
legally imposed responsibilities---after the trial where the
prosecution has been relieved of the burden of proof and the
assumptions cannot be contested. Such an act is not supported by any
holding, or dicta, of the supreme court. No appellate court condones
such an action except for income tax cases.

All we have in the instant case is a naked accusation without any
statutory foundation. If the only thing necessary for establishing
the existence of a legal responsibility is the whim of the
prosecutor, there is no reason for a judicial proceeding. The whim
can equally prearrange requirements of culpability even to where an
accusation is conclusive evidence of guilt.  Due Process would be
set back 2000 years to Roman law.

The necessity of being informed of a known legal duty has been
expressed by the court.
"This Court has repeatedly stated that criminal statutes which fail
to give due notice that an act has been made criminal before it is
done are unconstitutional deprivations of due process of law."
Jordan v De George, 341 US 223, 230 (1951). In the instant
information, we are not faced with a lack of a statute that gives
notice of a lawful duty before an act is done; we are instead
looking for a law that describes a mandatory responsibility before
conviction.   The prosecution implicitly asks the court to assume
such a law exists but refuses to identify it and submit it to
contestation. And again: "Conviction upon a charge not made would be
sheer denial of due process." De Jonge v Oregon, 299 US 353, 362.
(1937); Dunn v US, 442 US 100, 106-107.  "If doubt exists as to the
construction of a taxing statute, the doubt should be resolved in
favor of the taxpayer."   Hassett v Welch, 303 US 303, 314.  Again,
a request for construction by the Hassett court must rest upon an
identified tax statute that has previously been averred, which has
not been done in the instant case.

This is not a situation were a defendant has been accused of one
crime and convicted of another with "prejudice" being required to
set aside the verdict.   Where NO crime has been averred, prejudice
is a non sequitur. Patton v US, 281 US 276, 292; Harris v US, 149
F3d 1304, 1308; Kelly v US, 29 F3d 1107, 1113-1114.

Nor can the prosecutor rely upon the provision of FRCrP 7(c)(3) that
authorizes criminal process without a statutory citation. The
committee that wrote the provision in 2002 relied upon the two cases
of Williams v US, 168 US 382 (1897) and US v Hutcheson, 312 US  219
(1941) as supporting authority for the provision.  Scrutiny of the
two cases reveal each case involved the averring of one crime with
the conviction of another crime, and the origin of the prejudice
requirement.  They do not support the validity of process that has
NO statutory duty averred.  Eight hundred years evolution of Due
Process that no man shall be punished for a crime except "by the law
of the land" cannot properly be reversed by a misleading
representation made by a committee rewriting procedural rules.

CONCLUSION
The responsibility for a tax can only be imposed by a statute.   26
USC §7203 is the only statute identified in the information and the
above analysis conclusively shows §7203 can apply to numerous
different taxes and to many acts forbidden within each tax.  The
citation therefore cannot identify a "known legal duty" that the
defendant may have violated and the information therefore does not
charge an offense.

Without a crime being presented to the court in the information, the
court does not have a "case" before it and the verdict must be set
aside.
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#15632 From: Email41@...
Date: Wed Dec 5, 2007 2:40 pm
Subject: Re: 5 USC § 702 hearings & your Ind.MasterFile; Passports, ...
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I came across this info looking for the status of neutrals in occupied territories. I wonder if this portion makes it mandatory to posses a passport for those who are non-belligerents (itenerate neutrals) in the occupied territories?


FM 27-10
 

THE LAW OF LAND WARFARE
CHAPTER 7

NONHOSTILE RELATIONS OF BELLIGERENTS



Section II. MILITARY PASSPORTS, SAFE-CONDUCTS AND SAFEGUARDS


454.
General Persons within an area occupied by a belligerent may be protected from molestation or interference through military passports,safe-conducts, and safeguards. These devices are a matter of international law only when granted or posted by arrangement with the enemy.

455. Military Passport A military passport is a document issued by order of a commander of belligerent forces,
authorizing a person or persons named therein, residing or sojourning within territory occupied by such forces, to travel unmolested within such territory, with or without permissionto pass, or to pass and return, by designated routes, through the lines,subject to such further conditions and limitations as the commander may prescribe.

CHAPTER 9
NEUTRALITY


Section V. NEUTRAL PERSONS


547. Neutral PersonsThe nationals of a State which is not taking partin the war are considered as neutrals. (H. V, art. 16.)548. Neutral Persons Resident in Occupied Territory
Neutral persons resident in occupied territory are not entitled to claim different treatment, in general, from that accorded the other inhabitants. They must refrain from all participation in the war, from all hostile acts, and observe strictly the rules of the occupant.All nationals of neutral powers, whether resident or temporarily visiting an occupied territory, may be punished for offenses committed by them to the same extent and in the same manner as enemy nationals. (See GC,art. 4; par. 247 herein, regarding the protectionof neutral persons.)























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#15633 From: Michael Noonan <mn_chicago@...>
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2007 2:01 am
Subject: Re: Thoughts on foreclosure fight
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> Madison Smith sobaybuild2000@... posted this
> to the trustees_agents Yahoo Group

> The only way of getting the banks is by going after
> them for fraud.

Actually, yes and no.  Going after a lender for fraud
puts the onus on "you" (whoever is suing), and having
to prove all the elements of fraud is not easy.

>You must go after the banks by taking them in to
>court and make them produce the Note and make them
>follow the rule of the court as well as the rule of
>evidence.

Usually, the lender goes after you first, and that is
to your advantage.  Now you are in a position to
make the lender prove all its elements of foreclosure

> In the foreclosure cases the bank must be the Holder
> in due Course having the right to foreclose.

The two most important elements the bank must prove,
and failure on the first negates the latter, a point
I am currently going after on appeal for my own
situation.


>In most cases the bank doesn't have the Note.

In all cases would be more accurate.



> In most cases when you look at the mortgage in the
> definitions of a Loan it may
> something like this "Loan is evidence by the Note
> and Mortgage".

In all cases, it really says something like, "...in
return for A LOAN, you promise to pay $xxx,xxx, ...

"a" is an indefinite article.  Your loan was very
specific.  To what does "a loan" refer is a question
no lender will answer, other than to dance around it
and say, "the $xxx,xxx, silly."


> Read the attached pg from Black's Law 4Ed 1957

While you have your Black's Law out, look up "a."

> So that that being said the Note and the Mortgage
> mean NOTHING without the
> other in the case of a Loan of credit on a titled
> property.

If you play your hand right, you will never get to
that part.
>
> Personally I witnessed an attorney state in open
> court. The Judge; "Do you have the Note"?
>
> The banks attorney; "No your honor, our client has
> followed standard
> industry practice pooled the Note with others and
> sold it to their investors"

And who was the fool that did not object for the open
admission of fraud?!!!!

"Oh really?  And where precisely was that part of my
terms of the Note?  Your honor, (sorry FF, they did
not disqualify you know who), is opposing counsel
telling us that the lender went outside the terms of
my Note without my knowledge, consent or approval?"

If you understand that, you got'em.
>
> I was there as a witness along with two other
> Notaries.

Mute witnesses.  Who needs them?


>
> If you have already done a Notary Protest to which
> you have recorded, then
> that can be brought in as evidence to move the court
> for further discovery.
> A Notary Protest is evidence under the Rules of
> evidence I believe 920 and
> 921. I would have to look it up again as well as
> 201.

A needless waste of time and off point.

> The banks well try and say you signed a mortgage
> agreement and enter a copy
> of that agreement. The judge well then ask you if
> you signed that agreement
> or ask is that your signature? Your reply is, no
> that is not my signature.
> So under the rules of evidence 1003 they must now
> produce the evidence that
> the signature on that document is yours. But still
> must have BOTH DOCUMENTS
> the Note and Mortgage to enforce so never loose
> sight of that.

Again, having the lender produce the original Note,
by denying that is your signature on a copy precludes
the judge asking the question, which has you on the
defensive instead of the other way around.

Just a few thoughts in response.

Cheers, all.

mn


      
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#15634 From: Michael Noonan <mn_chicago@...>
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2007 2:07 am
Subject: Re: Re: (Wisdom) on foreclosure fight
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--- vivus_spartacus <vivus_spartacus@...> wrote:

> "The banks well try and say you signed a mortgage
> agreement and
> enter a copy of that agreement. The judge well then
> ask you if you
> signed that agreement or ask is that your
> signature?"
>
>

>
>
> Therefore the Correct Reply should be as:
>
>
>
> 'I have No information, or knowledge sufficient to
> form a belief as
> to the Authenticity of the signature presented by
> opposing party
> which is alleging same to be mine.'
>
>

I am not dogging you here, v_s, but by requiring the
lender  to produce the original note from the outset,
as I noted in another post to this theme, eliminates
putting oneself into that position.

I prefer to always make the lender sweat what is
impossible for it to do.

Cheers!

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#15635 From: "kasgs300" <kasgs300@...>
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2007 2:47 am
Subject: 40.00 ILLEGAL TAX PROTESTERS
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http://cybersafe.gov/tax/readingroom/2001ctm/40ctax.htm

Any in put on this manual, not sure if I could post the link but
thought it would be easy than a long paste.




Updated October 2001
40.01 GENERALLY

40.02 SCHEMES
       40.02[1] Paper Terrorism
             40.02[1][a] Harassment Schemes
             40.02[1][b] Bogus Financial Instruments
       40.02[2] Warehouse Banks
       40.02[3] Trusts
       40.02[4] Church Schemes
             40.02[4][a] Generally
             40.02[4][b] Vow of Poverty
             40.02[4][c] Charitable Contributions
             40.02[4][d] First Amendment Considerations

40.03 TRIAL TACTICS/CONSIDERATIONS
       40.03[1] Criminal Summons
       40.03[2] 26 U.S.C. § 6103(h)(5) Juror Audit Information
       40.03[3] IRS Agents' Authority
       40.03[4] Indictment Not Sufficient Notice of Illegality
       40.03[5] Filing of Protest Documents: Is the Document Filed a
Tax Return?
             40.03[5][a] Generally
             40.03[5][b] What Is a Tax Return?
             40.03[5][c] What Is or Is Not a Tax Return: A Matter of
Law
       40.03[6] Discovery of IRS Master Files
       40.03[7] Motions in Limine
       40.03[8] Attorney Sanctions
       40.03[9] Evidentiary Issues
             40.03[9][a] Prior or Subsequent Tax Protest Activities:
Rule 404(b)
             40.03[9][b] IRS Agent's Testimony and Sequestration
             40.03[9][c] Admissibility of IRS Computer Records
       40.03[10] Use of Pseudonyms by IRS Revenue Agents and Officers
       40.03[11] Jury Nullification

40.04 WILLFULNESS

40.05 DEFENSES
       40.05[1] Good Faith
             40.05[1][a] Reliance on Return Preparer/Accountant
             40.05[1][b] Reliance on Advice of Counsel
             40.05[1][c] No Defense in Non-Tax Cases
       40.05[2] Constitutional Challenges
             40.05[2][a] Fourth Amendment -- Unreasonable Search and
Seizure
             40.05[2][b] Fifth Amendment -- Due Process; Freedom from
Self-incrimination
             40.05[2][c] Tax Laws Are Unconstitutionally Vague
             40.05[2][d] Sixteenth Amendment Never Ratified
       40.05[3] Selective Prosecution and Freedom of Speech
             40.05[3][a] Generally
             40.05[3][b] Selective Prosecution Defense
             40.05[3][c] Freedom of Speech
       40.05[4] District Court Lacks Jurisdiction of Title 26 Offenses
             40.05[4][a]  Generally
             40.05[4][b] The Gold-Fringed Flag ("The American Maritime
Flag of War")
       40.05[5] Filing Income Tax Returns Is Voluntary, Not Mandatory
       40.05[6] Wages Are Not Income
       40.05[7] Defendant Not A "Person" or "Citizen";
                District Court Lacks Jurisdiction Over Non-Persons and
State Citizens
             40.05[7][a] Generally
             40.05[7][b] Filing U.S. Nonresident Alien Income Tax
Return
       40.05[8] IRS Has Duty to Prepare Returns for Taxpayer (26
U.S.C. § 6020(b))
       40.05[9] Violation of the Privacy Act
       40.05[10] Federal Reserve Notes Are Not Legal Tender
       40.05[11] Form W-2 As Substitute for Form 1040
       40.05[12] Paperwork Reduction Act ("PRA") Defense
       40.05[13] Lack of Publication in the Federal Register
       40.05[14] Taxpayer's Name in Capital Letters or Misspelled
       40.05[15] Tax Protest Against Government Spending

#15636 From: "vivus_spartacus" <vivus_spartacus@...>
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2007 8:06 am
Subject: Re: (Wisdom) on foreclosure fight
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O.K. Since I was responding to the faulty scenario created /provided
by "Madison Smith",


perhaps you would like to explain:

Exactly which part of the Demurrer Process/Timing do you not
understand?


The Demurrer is filed in Response to the Original Complaint.


The subsequent Discovery Process and Pre-Trial Motions Calender,


whereby the Motion To Dismiss For Lack of Evidence is heard,
does not require one to State in Open Court, the erroneous reply
which "Madison Smith" presented as proper.



Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your
getting, Get understanding. Proverbs 4:7

Extra Cheers!


"vivus spartacus"
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--- In tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com, Michael Noonan
<mn_chicago@...> wrote:
>
"I am not dogging you here, v_s, but by requiring the lender  to
produce the original note from the outset, as I noted in another
post to this theme, eliminates putting oneself into that position."
>
"I prefer to always make the lender sweat what is impossible for it
to do."
>
Cheers!
>
mn
>

#15637 From: "rebel382003" <liberty@...>
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2007 6:50 pm
Subject: Re: 40.00 ILLEGAL TAX PROTESTERS
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"kasgs300" <kasgs300@...> has informed us of the link to the
government's website of courtroom protests to the income tax.

The sheer length of the list of tax resisters and the multitude of
claims is amazing.  And I am sure the number of cases identified is
but a small fraction of the actual cases taken to court.

Note also that [40.03[8] Attorney Sanctions] gives evidence that
various presentations of claims challenging the existence of
liability, and unacceptable trial dramatics, has resulted in
sanctions.  Becraft paid $2500 and may well be intimidated about
having his license suspended for any further filing.  It is
submitted the legal analysis made by lawyers in prior cases has not
been as documented as in the MOTION TO SET ASIDE VERDICT posted as
#15631 on this board December 5.

Reb
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>
> http://cybersafe.gov/tax/readingroom/2001ctm/40ctax.htm
>
> Any in put on this manual, not sure if I could post the link but
> thought it would be easy than a long paste.
>
>
>
>
> Updated October 2001
> 40.01 GENERALLY
>
> 40.02 SCHEMES

>     ****SNIPPED******

#15638 From: "jbrealtyfl" <jbrealtyfl@...>
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2007 9:04 pm
Subject: Re: foreclosure not by holder in due course
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Before you try this in Florida make sure you read Florida Statute
673.3091
The bank can just say " we lost it"

673.3091  Enforcement of lost, destroyed, or stolen instrument.--

(1)  A person not in possession of an instrument is entitled to
enforce the instrument if:

(a)  The person seeking to enforce the instrument was entitled to
enforce the instrument when loss of possession occurred, or has
directly or indirectly acquired ownership of the instrument from a
person who was entitled to enforce the instrument when loss of
possession occurred;

(b)  The loss of possession was not the result of a transfer by the
person or a lawful seizure; and

(c)  The person cannot reasonably obtain possession of the instrument
because the instrument was destroyed, its whereabouts cannot be
determined, or it is in the wrongful possession of an unknown person
or a person that cannot be found or is not amenable to service of
process.

(2)  A person seeking enforcement of an instrument under subsection
(1) must prove the terms of the instrument and the person's right to
enforce the instrument. If that proof is made, s. 673.3081 applies to
the case as if the person seeking enforcement had produced the
instrument. The court may not enter judgment in favor of the person
seeking enforcement unless it finds that the person required to pay
the instrument is adequately protected against loss that might occur
by reason of a claim by another person to enforce the instrument.
Adequate protection may be provided by any reasonable means.

History.--s. 2, ch. 92-82; s. 1, ch. 2004-3.

Is it legal for them to say "we lost it" when in reality they sold it?

#15639 From: BOB GREGORY <rhgusn@...>
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2007 9:21 pm
Subject: Re: Re: 40.00 ILLEGAL TAX PROTESTERS
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I think the IRS does around 300 criminal prosecutions per year.  That is a significant number, but not very large in comparison to the number of people who do not file tax returns.  An estimate by the IRS several years ago was that around 63,000,000 people who had an apparent requirement to file did not file.  That number is probably larger now.

The principal tactic of the IRS is to intimidate.  Part of that intimidation is  making examples of people to keep the rest in line.  The IRS is quick to announce all of its wins, but never mentions its losses.  Becraft has wins and losses, just as most attorneys do.  A fine of $2,500 is no fun, but it's only around eight hours work for an attorney.  It would be interesting to know how much he made just from Tom Cryer (whose case he won) and Sherry Jackson (whose case he lost).  Some people strongly criticize Becraft, but they need to realize that if a person is not making mistakes and losing occasionally, he is probably playing it very safe or not willing to deal with the serious challenges.


rebel382003 wrote:


The sheer length of the list of tax resisters and the multitude of
claims is amazing. And I am sure the number of cases identified is
but a small fraction of the actual cases taken to court.

Note also that [40.03[8] Attorney Sanctions] gives evidence that
various presentations of claims challenging the existence of
liability, and unacceptable trial dramatics, has resulted in
sanctions. Becraft paid $2500 and may well be intimidated about
having his license suspended for any further filing.



#15640 From: "Yannis Mousouros" <agtriada@...>
Date: Thu Dec 6, 2007 10:22 pm
Subject: 40.00 ILLEGAL TAX PROTESTERS
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Re: Right to due process memory  refresher,  with valuable legal a material
for free.

Good comments. It is worth reading this on the right to due process etc.:



http://www.houstonlawreview.org/archive/downloads/41-4_pdf/book.pdf



There must be, nevertheless, a similar source with legal tax protesters tax
manual.

Does anyone have any such information to contribute to the rest of us legal
tax objectors?

Yannis



  The sheer length of the list of tax resisters and the multitude of
claims is amazing. And I am sure the number of cases identified is
but a small fraction of the actual cases taken to court.

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