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My lecturer recently told us that during the late 80's the land prices in japan were so ridiculously inflated that you could have bought the entire of the united states with the money made from selling tokyo.

This got me thinking, if you could legally buy all the land in a country, would you be able to do what you like, i.e. Make laws? It would put you in the same role as a king would it not?
 
M0T said:
This got me thinking, if you could legally buy all the land in a country, would you be able to do what you like, i.e. Make laws? It would put you in the same role as a king would it not?
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You're better off using the money to buy politicians and judges :p
 
quite interesting lol, i suppose if you ownedit all then everybody would have to pay you to live there and if anybody got in your way, jus get rid of them :)

e.g. a police officer wants to arrest you!

you say to somebody near by, 'if you help me kill hm i will give you free rent for a year, as well as the best fibre glass internet connection for the rest of your life for free'

Thus making you in control of every body :)
 
America bought Alaska :)

I'm pretty sure if you somehow bought all the land in America (god knows why the government/national parks would sell though :confused: ) you would pretty much run the place as you could evict everyone.
 
Rotty said:
I would buy France








and close it :p
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Would anyone notice the difference? Half the time the ferry ports seem to be blockaded anyway. ;)

From a purely practical point of view then yes owning all land in a country would more or less make you de facto ruler by the simple fact that to do so you would have to have enough money and power to have taken it over i.e. you could crush any rebellion with that.

However as a strict legal point, no, you couldn't just do anything you wanted to - owning everything does not give you legal authority to make law, nor to act with impunity. As others have alluded to you might own your house and the land that surrounds it a caelo usque ad centrum (from the sky to the centre of the Earth) but that doesn't give you implicit authority to do absolutely anything on it, if it did then you would be your own independent sovereign country.
 
Didn't some journalist already do it a few years ago - buy a property, make his own flags, rules, tax, etc. I cannot remember his name.
 
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