Providing false information about lordships on the internet for financial gain, is a CRIMINAL OFFENCE.
These are the most popular frauds published on the internet.
- POSSESSION – Scammers claim they can take ownership of a Lordship/Lordship Title by merely saying they possess it. English law allows legal possession for objects, buildings and land, it does not allow it for Lordship Titles/Lordships. Search “legal possession UK” and all the legal web sites will confirm this
- LORDSHIP/LORDSHIP TITLE REGISTERS – Scammers are offering free registration with titles registers. The scammers own the register, so registration is worthless but goes to validate the scam/fraud. The only registration worth having is a notice in “The Gazette” placed by a UK registered solicitor (lawyer)
- A TINY PIECE OF LAND – they sell you a tiny piece of land and claim it gives you the right to have a title. You need to name your piece of land so anything goes, eg. “Mickey Mouse”(Scottish law still allows ALL property owners to call themselves Laird)
- CLAIM TO BE A STEWARD – to a manor and that gives them the right to make you their lord. (They have no authority to be the steward and even if they did, they cannot make someone their lord)
- CREATE A DEED POLL – (name change), your first name becoming Lord or Lady. (A source of embarrassment when you use your name)
- ADVERSE POSSESSION – to create a new legal right to a lordship. (Adverse possession only applies to physical land NOT lordships)
- PRESCRIPTION – to create a new legal right to a lordship. (only permissible for rights over physical land not lordship titles, which do not affect physical land)
- STATUTORY DECLARATION – claiming ownership of a lordship or lordship title. (A Statutory Declaration can only be made if the signatory knows something as a fact. They cannot confirm what someone else, even a relative, has told them. So a Statutory Declaration cannot confirm something that happened before they were born. This makes any Statutory Declaration with information they cannot know as illegal)
- A solicitor witnesses their paperwork. (this is not confirmation as to legality of the content, it confirms the signature is that of the author)
- INSURANCE POLICY – claim to provide a policy with their lordships/lordship titles. (It is impossible to take out insurance against the policy holder committing fraud, a policy would never pay out)
- COPYRIGHT/TRADEMARK LAW – Claim an historic title can be registered under Copyright/Trademark Law. (Copyright/Trademark Law only protects new creations, NOT Lordship Titles that have existed for centuries)
- QUASI POSSESSION – Scammers claim they can use this law. Quasi Possession is only legal under South African law and therefore not able to be used on English Lordship Titles. Any English titles sold under South African law is unlawful and you will lose your money.
- THE GAZETTE – They offer a notice in The Gazette but once they have your money cannot place the notice. The reason being a notice must be placed by a solicitor. Solicitors will not support a scammer.