I agree with Len. The USA is landowner of that acre, not sovereign.

There's a small parcel of land down the road from me that's owned by the State
of California (having been willed so by the late previous owner). This doesn't
mean that anyone who rented and lived on the land could vote for Arnold
Schwarzenegger.

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA

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From: "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: american acre in runnymeade uk

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> There's a big difference between "ceded" and only "deeded". The USA
> owns a lot of property around the world over which it isn't the sovereign.
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> I recall the case of the embassy grounds in Prague - the U.S. owns the
> property unlike the cases of most other US embassy grounds. It was, if
> I recall right, the fact that the U.S. held real property deed / title
> (that a private party gave the US as a gift before the communist
> regime came into power) that the old Czech government couldn't
> nationalize it - the grounds remained the only "private" property in
> Czechoslovakia during the "red" period.
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> The US never claimed the grounds as a piece of US territory in
> Czechoslovakia. (It was only a place where Czech law didn't apply
> because it was an embassy - EXTRA-territorial from the Czech side, but
> not annexed to be part of the US).
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>> http://melinlondon.typepad.com/photos/runnymead_and_windsor/
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>> I have seen reference to this acre being deeded to the USA by the UK,
>> but i forget the history of the event.Can anyone help? And why does
>> it never show up on lists of American Territories?
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