- Jan 12, 2013
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I'd given up hope that this was ever going to happen, considering that loophole's been there for decades upon decades.Get that ******** off your land! And tell him to shove hisup his ***. Hope you can get that jerk off your land ASAP.

There's only one local judge here overseeing these kinds of cases since I live in the middle of nowhere, so this'll definitely land on his desk again.
I wonder if he'll remember, as I assume it's rather unusual to have a farmer walk in there and force him to approve a lease paid in potatoes.
If I was actually able to find a written contract, this would've never happened. Because I legally couldn't refute the farmer's word in court, the judge was forced to approve whatever the farmer claimed the verbal contract to be. In theory, he could've set the terms of the lease to $0.01 per year for an unlimited time period until he dies.
Non-verbal contracts for farmland are actually quite common, at least in my small town of 2000 people and the surrounding rural towns.