I had mixed feelings when I logged on to the new RPLS Today. However, I can tell you that I was blown away by what I saw. This new format is great: both completely familiar and improved in a way that isn't the first thing one notices. For example, I discovered that when I search "Superiority of Metes and Bounds", now I get thousands of hits that would not have been there in the old, outdated software "platform" just a few short years ago.
By the way, I've come to realize that much of modern life has a platform problem. Sure, platform shoes were okay - on women - but we're discussing everything that came after that, right?
Possibly it's the result of having spent the last few days researching the chains of title to some tracts of land in San Antonio from 1839 to the present that makes me philosophical about platforms. The Bexar County Clerk has a website where you can search the entire Real Property Records from the Year Zero for free and print and save such instruments as you may discover - likewise free of charge - but if you are browsing with Google Chrome, you are out of luck. IE6 and higher? You're golden. Ditto Firefox 3.0 and higher. Just not Chrome.
Fortunately, the County Clerk's website did not require me to provide a birthdate. That bit of data mining would have been a major platform problem that would have left me looking for other options.
to provide DOB or not to provide DOB...the age old question we all must answer at some point...we're all glad this wasn't one of those time for you.
Not sure Wendell is in a joking mood right now.
Wait>>>>>>> I swear I saw something about DOB in the registration info for this very site. I always provide fake data to such questions, BTW, so it's really not a problem.
Holy Cow, post: 442876, member: 50 wrote: I always provide fake data to such questions, BTW, so it's really not a problem.
Well, I tried to enter April 1st, 1852, but there was a platform problem.
Kent's DOB is 10/14/1066, I thought everybody knew that.
Rankin_File, post: 442875, member: 101 wrote: Not sure Wendell is in a joking mood right now.
Do you have the right to question an illustrious one?
(edit).........................never mind............................that might not be taken well by all........................
Robert Hill, post: 442885, member: 378 wrote: Do you have the right to question an illustrious one?
all that Illustrious crap is temporary parked in the corner waste basket.... He's back to being just a 7 year member....
Dave Karoly, post: 442882, member: 94 wrote: Kent's DOB is 10/14/1066, I thought everybody knew that.
his "normanness" certainly shines thru frequently.....
That was a nice touch.
Reminded me of Ray Stevens famous words..................................
"Operator, give me room 321, please
Hello, Noble Lumpkin?
This here is the illustrious Potentate
I said it's the illustrious Potentate
The illustrious, Coy!"
"Dad blame it! This here's Bubba!
Read more: Ray Stevens - Shriner's Convention Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Dave Karoly, post: 442882, member: 94 wrote: Kent's DOB is 10/14/1066, I thought everybody knew that.
That would be the correct date for someone who was a specialist in GIS, I'd think. Since the PLSS is a sort of ready-made Domesday Book, facilitating and simplifying the inventories of estates in land, I'd think it would work there as well. Much of Texas surveying (and law) proceeds from Rome via Spain and probably derives its complexity from those alternate customs and practices along the route to the present.
Kent McMillan, post: 442897, member: 3 wrote: That would be the correct date for someone who was a specialist in GIS, I'd think. Since the PLSS is a sort of ready-made Domesday Book, facilitating and simplifying the inventories of estates in land, I'd think it would work there as well. Much of Texas surveying (and law) proceeds from Rome via Spain and probably derives its complexity from those alternate customs and practices along the route to the present.
[SARCASM]yes I see a lot of similarity between your survey opinions and the Spanish inquisitors...... markedly so....[/SARCASM] pre and post EFF
Kent McMillan, post: 442897, member: 3 wrote: ....and probably derives its complexity from those alternate customs and practices along the route to the present.
Along the route indeed.
Rankin_File, post: 442898, member: 101 wrote: yes I see a lot of similarity between your survey opinions and the Spanish inquisitors...... markedly so....
No, it's a serious point that the Law of Texas began from the Spanish Civil Law. This is the law restated in the texts known as "Las Siete Partidas". For example, there are various important differences in Texas law from the Anglophone states regarding the rights to property, including the law regarding the separate ownerships of property between spouses, that did not exist in the English common law of the day. I think that outside of Texas, the great scholars may have been preoccupied with extending the grid of townships across the Great Plains toward somewhere hopeful, and that accounts for the lag in development.
With a date of birth and a few key other bits of information, anon will own what you own if they can find it.
Today, money woman from bank had to go thru and redact some info to scan documents to me because their system bounces inclusion data from being sent to outside office locations.
That has me wondering what software catches that in the scanning stage and what else is possible.
Kent McMillan, post: 442900, member: 3 wrote: No, it's a serious point that the Law of Texas began from the Spanish Civil Law. This is the law restated in the texts known as "Las Siete Partidas".
Seriously, the rest of us in the other 49 think your Texas procedures are nothing more than "Los Heapo de Bull Crap Grande".
paden cash, post: 442904, member: 20 wrote: Seriously, the rest of us in the other 49 think your Texas procedures are nothing more than "Los Heapo de Bull Crap Grande".
Well, of course you do, bless your hearts. You've all just got to dance with the gal you done brung.
paden cash, post: 442904, member: 20 wrote: Seriously, the rest of us in the other 49 think your Texas procedures are nothing more than "Los Heapo de Bull Crap Grande".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Sebasti?n_Pintado
http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2008/ms008036.pdf
Robert Hill, post: 442925, member: 378 wrote: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Sebasti?n_Pintado
http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2008/ms008036.pdf
Yes, the Spanish and Mexican authorities were generally excellent archivists and recorders in a way that the riffraff who drifted into Texas from the US were not. The Spanish tradition was professional and highly organized, if slow and methodical.
