Often the deals aren't limited to cash. There are promises of economic development, education, healthcare etc.. as well.
You might agree to give your land away to a verbal deal where promises are made, only to discover later that the detailed text contains contingencies that give your counterparty an out of one or more major promise that you had taken for granted as part of the deal.
One could write a book about all the different forms of legal trickery that have been used to expropriate lands from people who have lived on it for generations but don't necessarily have all the "proper" paperwork. Or even if they do. I live in a backwater in Brazil and I have seen lots of this. Even "gringos" are often victims because they don't know all the hoops you have to jump through to get the proper paperwork, and no infrequently the lawyer they hire turns out to be a thief.
The problem comes when the people selling the land don't have the cleqr legal rights to do so. The problems get far more complicated when the land being sold is owned collectively by a group of indigenous people.
Deposing your supreme court when they rule against your new law, and replacing them with ones that reverses that decision goes well past legal trickery into coup territory.
bifrost|4 years ago
Eminent Domain is one thing, but people paying eachother for land is as old as time, as is being butthurt about the price.
youeseh|3 years ago
You might agree to give your land away to a verbal deal where promises are made, only to discover later that the detailed text contains contingencies that give your counterparty an out of one or more major promise that you had taken for granted as part of the deal.
jbotz|3 years ago
shkkmo|3 years ago
Deposing your supreme court when they rule against your new law, and replacing them with ones that reverses that decision goes well past legal trickery into coup territory.
rendall|3 years ago